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El Corte Inglés, Europe’s largest department store group, has attracted 10 more lenders to the top line of a €3.65bn funding package, ahead of the transaction being launched into general syndication.

The equity capital market has kicked back into life this week with a number of high profile deals to test investor appetite. But with investors challenging IPO valuations and volatility causing a scare, lead managers might have to start selling deals on their fundamentals rather than relying on bullish market sentiment to do the job.

The Republic of Slovenia is once again in the market with a liability management exercise that will enable it to tidy its debt structure by buying back up to $650m of its outstanding dollar bonds, as it continues its bid to consolidate its outstanding dollar debt into one bond maturing 2024.

In July 2017, German property company Grand City Properties announced a tender of its 2021 bonds alongside a new nine year issue. On Monday it repeated the process, offering to buy what remained of the 2021 bond it didn’t buy in July and adding a tender for its 0.25% 2022 convertible bonds.

Siemens has begun the IPO process for the highly anticipated spin-off of its health division, Siemens Healthineers, by releasing its intention to float document.

Daimler led three corporate dollar issuers on Thursday as the market stabilised and high grade credits showed their resilience after a stop-start week.

A jump in US Treasury yields following a higher than expected US inflation print could boost long end dollar supply from SSAs said bankers, although investors might be keen for concerns over inflation to die down first. Meanwhile, issuers have been focusing on short dated arbitrage style trades with benchmark issuance limited this week — and likely next week — due to the Chinese New Year holidays.

Investor expectations for the number of US Federal Reserve target rate rises this year grew on Wednesday after inflation figures for the country came in higher than most analysts’ expectations. The shift came on the same day that Rentenbank doubled its minimum size on a dollar syndication.

Bookrunners will start marketing the financing for KKR’s buyout of Unilever’s spread business as soon as next week, with the European high yield bond and the leveraged loan market both braced for supply.

Baidu-backed video streaming platform iQiyi has filed documents with the US market regulator for a listing of American Depository Shares (ADS), according to the Chinese parent company’s quarterly earnings report released on Tuesday.

The two Turkish IPOs priced this year are trading roughly in-line with their listing prices, despite recent outflows from emerging market ECM. But it is too early to judge whether this represents a positive outlook for Turkish ECM this year, according to sources.

Indian micro-finance lender Spandana Sphoorty Financial is in the process of mandating banks for a potential $150m IPO, according to a banker at a firm pitching for the deal.