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UniCredit sailed to success with a three year floating rate deal on Thursday, reaffirming the strength of demand from investors for Italian financial paper. Even investors that normally stick to fixed rate paper were lured into the deal by the prospect of picking up Italian risk.

A trio of SSA issuers took to the dollar market this week to sell aggressively priced deals, filling gaps in supply at the front end and belly of the curve. However, while deals this week may have thrived at very tight levels, syndicate officials have warned that issuers may need to be more reasonable in the levels they demand in the near future.

The second quarter of the year is looking set for some major landmarks in peripheral eurozone sovereigns’ journey back to market normality, after Portugal outlined details for a return to bond auctions and talk of an imminent benchmark from Greece reached fevered levels.

Banco Popular Español (BPE) issued the third Cédulas of 2014 and at €1bn, the issuer’s largest covered bond in three years. Though it was by no means the most attractive spread this year it was less than half the average of its previous three deals.

An impressive euro benchmark debut for Kommunalbanken that left bankers running out of superlatives should be a “blueprint” for other top-rated issuers looking to enter the market, according to a head of SSA DCM.

Bank of America Merrill Lynch has made a double hire from Deutsche Bank, adding Adrien de Naurois and Hiren Gudka to its SSA team.

Bond investors showed no sign of losing faith in Mexico’s reform programme as the sovereign attracted 413 investors to Tuesday’s €2bn dual tranche bond issue — more than the country has had in any international bond before.

Spanish online travel agent eDreams OdiGeo completed a €376m-€433m IPO, giving the firm a market capitalisation of around €1.1bn and pricing at a premium to comparable issues.

Damac Real Estate Development’s debut sukuk helped get Middle Eastern capital market volume off to a strong start for the second quarter, as the company priced a bigger than expected $650m inside guidance late on Wednesday, with over $2.7bn of orders.

Thursday is set to see the first senior unsecured supply of the week, with two euro deals expected to price in the afternoon. Sparebank 1 SR-Bank is selling a seven year benchmark while UniCredit is set to price a three year floater.

The Maldives has once again hit bankers’ radars after private equity firm Blackstone sealed a $150m loan last week, refinancing the funds it took less than a year ago to buy stakes in two seaplane operators in the island nation.

Chinese technology company Baioo Family Interactive priced its HK$1.52bn ($196m) debut on Thursday, despite global comps dropping by as much as 16% through the marketing process.