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One of India’s largest property developers, Indiabulls Real Estate, is in the market with its debut bond. The deal follows hot on the heels of fellow Indian high yield issuer JSW Steel.

HSBC’s global research division has hired a Deutsche Bank veteran to serve as the head the bank’s equity research for Asia Pacific.

US conglomerate 3M Co visited the euro bond market on Wednesday — the latest in a string of highly rated US firms to tap what has become a very attractive market.

KfW took advantage of moves in the Australian dollar/euro basis swap to tap a January 2019 Kangaroo on Wednesday. The agency also raised £150m with a tap of a December 2017 sterling line.

National Australia Bank is set to sell the first Basel III-compliant tier two capital issue from an Australian bank in euros on Wednesday.

Kompany Weglowa has released initial price thoughts for a dollar benchmark five year bond at 9% yield area. As the company is 100% state-owned, this will make the bonds eligible for JP Morgan’s EMBIG (Emerging Market Bond Index Global) index. Syndicate officials away from the deal praised leads for having made this clear early as they said this, together with the bond's juicy yield, would likely drive demand higher.

The Indian high yield bond market is finally getting its act together following a stop-start year with JSW Steel going live with a five year dollar bond on November 5.

Apple’s first European bond issue was not the megadeal some might have hoped for — but at €2.8bn it was still large, and in the level of demand and its keen pricing, it did not disappoint.

Lindorff, the Norwegian debt collection group, launched on Tuesday a €250m tap of two of its bonds, with proceeds mainly destined to fund the recent purchase of a debt recovery unit from Spain’s Banco Sabadell.

South African telecommunications company MTN built a $3bn book for its $750m 10 year bond on Monday. Leads printed the maximum size that the company was considering as emerging market and investment grade buyers scrabbled for the diversification the debut name offered.

Piped gas operator China Oil and Gas Group made a memorable return to the debt market on November 3 with a $300m-capped bond that was more than 11 times subscribed. With such a huge order book, the issuer was able to take advantage to price through its existing dollar curve.

Royal Dutch Shell, like most oil companies a dollar-based issuer, had already blessed the euro market with a €2bn issue this year, in March.