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Sixt, the German car rental company, returned to the bond market on Wednesday, building on the success of its €250m deal in May 2012.

General Electric is the world’s biggest bond issuer, and usually one of the US issuers that comes most frequently to European markets — partly to diversify its funding, and partly because it has European-based businesses to finance.

Standard Chartered’s two tranche offering of senior unsecured debt this week represented some of the cheapest funding the bank has raised since its inception in 1868, said Chris Danels, global head of capital management at the bank. It showed that despite the ever intensifying search for yield, investors are also still hungry to diversify into low beta paper.

Deutsche Bank's head of capital solutions Gerald Podobnik has taken on another role, becoming head of FIG capital markets and treasury solutions for Germany and Austria.

Indian Oil Corporation launched its $650m five year loan into syndication on June 6 after adding five mandated lead arrangers and bookrunners to the existing nine.

Solar panel manufacturer Trina Solar successfully raised a combined $247m by pricing a concurrent placement and convertible bond offering on June 6, despite a turbulent market backdrop as Chinese solar companies were slapped with new import taxes by the US.

Hainan Airlines continued the recent run of taps on June 12, pricing the reopening of its offshore renminbi bond flat to the original 6.25% 2017s. Reverse enquiry drove the deal.

Sandvik and Sixt both launched sub-benchmark bonds today, after Sandvik had roadshowed on Monday and Tuesday and Sixt had held a conference call with investors on Tuesday morning.

Two less frequent European borrowers and the world’s biggest corporate bond issuer gave euro investors a varied diet today, as GE Capital issued a €500m FRN and Sandvik and Sixt brought their premarketing to fruition with sub-benchmark deals.

Investors poured into Beijing Enterprises Group Company’s (BE Group) HK$4.31bn ($556m) exchangeable bond on June 10 as the opportunity to invest in a major blue chip was too good to ignore even though the terms were aggressive.

Chilean lender Banco de Crédito e Inversiones (BCI) is set to sell its third Swiss franc bond on Wednesday afternoon, a curve extending five year note.

M7 Group, the Luxembourg satellite and online TV broadcaster, is adding a €110m six year ‘C’ tranche to its €355m loan, signed in September.