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Barclays Bank re-opened the primary covered bond market on Monday by issuing a £1bn ($1.51bn) three year sterling benchmark, and was followed by a pair of Canadian borrowers.

The senior FIG market’s new year surge accelerated on Thursday, with another five new issues announced in the wake of Wednesday’s successful prints. Attractive new issue premiums have kept demand high for senior unsecured prints, according to syndicate managers.

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RCA01, owned by Spring Real Estate Investment Trust (Spring Reit), is in the market for a $500m refinancing, picking three mandated lead arrangers and bookrunners. The loan is secured on property in Beijing.

Deutsche Bank has appointed two bankers in new positions to focus on technology in its US equity capital markets team, as it seeks to grow further in what was already a booming sector for IPOs last year.

Financing for Altice's planned takeover of Portugal Telecom has been put on hold, as the telco is being investigated over its investments in Grupo Espírito Santo.

US chemicals producer Angus Chemicals will hold a bank meeting in London on Thursday for the first leveraged loan of the year, a $505m-equivalent deal that backs its buyout by Golden Gate Capital.

Abbey National and Banque Fédérative du Crédit Mutuel have opened up 2015's market for fixed rate senior unsecured bank bonds, offering investors longer tenors than the three floaters from other issuers also in the market today.

Attractive levels helped drive demand for the first wave of floating rate notes to hit the Euromarket this year on Wednesday, as Bank of Nova Scotia, Rabobank and Société Générale all issued floating rate trades.

The Republic of the Philippines overcame an unusually sluggish market this week to print a $2bn bond as part of an accelerated switch process. The Asian bond market was quieter than normal in the first week of the year, thanks to high volatility caused by plummeting global oil prices and fears of a default in the Chinese property sector.

KfW targeted the belly of the Kangaroo curve for its first new issue of the year on Tuesday.