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SoftBank Group on Wednesday began roadshowing for euro and dollar bonds, even though the European high yield market has been at a standstill for two weeks while Greece negotiated its third bailout.

Zambia has picked banks for a dollar bond and finishes a roadshow next week. Stabilising copper prices have raised some analysts' outlooks on Zambia's existing Eurobonds, although those notes dropped in the secondary following announcement of a new trade.

The future of Greece as a eurozone country was hanging in the balance on Wednesday — all but shutting down the euro benchmark market for public sector borrowers.

Asia’s primary debt capital market was crowded on July 14 as opportunistic issuers rushed out to take advantage of a favourable, but perhaps short, issuance window. Korea Gas Corp (KoGas) was among the throng.

Deutsche Bank has scooped Kefei Li as a senior member of its ECM team, with the former UBS banker expected to start in his new position from October.

No sooner had the first tentative signs appeared of an agreement over Greece's debt crisis than the Asia ex-Japan primary debt capital markets finally woke up to some action from a trio of deals.

A supranational is set to become the first European SSA to bring a syndication after Greece reached a deal with its creditors on Monday morning — but will steer clear of euros.

The new chief executives at Deutsche Bank and Barclays have plenty of challenges ahead. Internal bureaucracy could well be the biggest.

CEEMEA debt bankers spent Monday morning on the phone to issuers following news of a Greek bailout agreement. But prospects for supply still hinge on a Greek parliamentary vote on Wednesday, and even then not just any CEEMEA issuer will be able to launch, said debt bankers.

Xinjiang Goldwind Science & Technology has hired three banks to arrange investor meetings ahead of what will be the first green bond by a Chinese issuer.

Leveraged loan market participants were in uncertain mood this week. Greek volatility made its mark on the market but not all deals have gone wide as a result.

After a week’s hesitation, Deutsche Pfandbriefbank has gone ahead with its IPO, in a sign of confidence in the market – despite the ever uglier masses of cloud building over Greece and China. If it is completed, the deal will raise over €1bn, and be almost certainly the largest IPO left in the European market before the August lull.