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French engineering consultancy Altran has set the term on its €750m rights issue to finance its acquisition of US global design and engineering company Aricent.

Spanish utility Iberdrola had significant success with its debut green hybrid bond in November when it received €3.2bn of orders. However, its second such bond failed to tighten from initial price thoughts when it was issued this week.

Asia’s dollar bond issuers were back in the market on Thursday after taking a pause during the US Federal Open Market Committee meeting this week.

Two senior bankers have joined Deutsche Bank’s CEEMEA team, while Maryam Khosrowshahi is adding to her role with the new title of chairperson of supranational, sovereign and agencies origination.

GlobalCapital revealed the winners of its Equity Capital Markets Awards 2017 at our third annual Awards Dinner in London on March 20. CEOs and CFOs were present to collect Awards for landmark deals such as the UniCredit and Santander rights issues and the IPOs of Allied Irish Banks and Pirelli.

The Council of Europe Development Bank returned to the market for socially responsible investments on Tuesday, printing a seven year “social inclusion” bond.

Société Générale said on Monday it had entered "a more active phase" of settlement discussions with US authorities over the Libor scandal and payments made to the Libyan Investment Authority (LIA).

Bandhan Bank is set to price its Rp44.7bn ($685.7m) IPO in India at the top of the indicative range following a blowout response, making it the country’s largest float on record by a bank.

The Council of Europe Development Bank’s long awaited social inclusion bond will come to market on Tuesday, following a two week roadshow.

Two new SRI corporate bonds were priced on Monday, but with very different results. Iberdrola’s green hybrid bond failed to tighten from initial price thoughts, while Danone’s debut social bond had to pay just 2bp of premium.

Italian business software vendor TeamSystem returned to the public bond market to refinance a floating rate note it placed privately in 2016, as high yield fund managers increase their demand for floating rate debt this year.

Baidu-backed video streaming platform iQiyi kicked off bookbuilding for its $2.38bn US listing on Monday and was covered quickly.