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The exceptionally strong demand in Europe’s corporate bond market has remained unaffected by the turmoil in the UK’s Parliament, as MPs vote night after night on repeated motions that could determine the country’s future inside or outside Europe. On Thursday, two issuers attracted huge books: Marsh & McLennan Companies, the US insurance and investment services group making its debut in euros, and Incommunities Group, a Leeds-based housing association, in sterling.

The African Development Bank sold a 10 year benchmark in euros on Thursday that bankers said priced through fair value. Land Schleswig-Holstein was also in the market for the same tenor that extended its curve to 2029.

India’s equity capital market is on edge as Embassy Office Parks Real Estate Investment Trust prepares the country’s first Reit IPO. But while the hotly-anticipated listing has global institutional investors chomping at the bit, the deal may be a one-off treat as the issuer has very few peers.

China’s state-owned ‘bad debt’ managers are making a comeback in the offshore market, after a rally in the sector. China Orient Asset Management Co this week became the second in a month to price bonds and there are more deals on the way. Addison Gong reports.

Dubai-based payments company Network International has kicked off investor education for its IPO on the London Stock Exchange, which is expected to value the business in the region of $3bn, according to a source close to the deal.

China’s industrial gas supplier Yingde Gases Group has launched a $300m borrowing into general syndication.

Risk appetite in the equity blocks market in Europe has improved significantly, according to market sources, and a UK biomedical research charity is the latest vendor to take advantage of the better conditions by offloading a chunk of its stake in Syncona, the FTSE 250 life sciences investment company.

Unédic priced through fair value for its first bond of the year on Wednesday, as the European Central Bank’s announcement of fresh liquidity supercharged an already red hot euro SSA market. African Development Bank will hope to find similar success in the 10 year part of the curve after mandating banks for its first benchmark of the year.

China’s industrial gas supplier Yingde Gases Group has launched a $300m borrowing into general syndication.

China’s Frontage Holdings Corp, which provides support to pharmaceutical companies, has refiled a draft IPO prospectus with Hong Kong’s stock exchange.

Embassy Office Parks Real Estate Investment Trust (Reit) has global long-only investors on tenterhooks as it prepares to launch its smaller-than-expected Rp47.5bn ($683m) IPO, having filed the final terms for India’s first Reit listing.

The International Swaps and Derivatives Association (ISDA) is planning to bring in new safeguards to clamp down on credit default swaps (CDSs) being used to trigger manufactured defaults.