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Shares in Mavi Jeans, the Turkish maker of designer denim wear, closed 3.5% higher following its stock market debut on Thursday, after the company priced its TL744.4m ($211m) IPO at the bottom of its price range on Monday.

Yapi Kredi raised $500m with a seven year senior bond on Wednesday, bringing the total of Turkish bank issuance so far this year to $5.3bn.

A Goldman Sachs managing director is taking up a new job as head of cross-asset quantitative trading at Barclays.

Cassa Depositi e Prestiti sold its first syndicated bond in over two years on Wednesday, returning to capital markets at a time when Italy’s political future looks the rosiest it has for months.

Buyers of sterling high yield bonds were set to show what they make of the June 8 elections in the UK, and the country's economic landscape on Tuesday, as online grocer Ocado priced the first all-round domestic deal since the vote.

Swiss telecoms UPC Holding, a Liberty Global subsidiary, brought its second 12 year bond offering on Wednesday, the longest maturity sold in the European high yield market so far this year.

Yapi Kredi hit screens on Wednesday with a new seven year note and will be hoping to capitalise on more positive economic indicators from Turkey, while offering some juice to overcome any investor fatigue around buying Turkish bank debt, according to a buy-side analyst.

All the action in the SSA bond markets switched to euros on Wednesday morning with the US Federal Reserve's imminent decision on interest rates quieting the dollar market.

HSBC has hired Rob Ritchie as co-head of global banking, UK.

A trio of euro borrowers launched trades and a fourth picked banks on Tuesday in a market buoyed by a perceived renewal of European political unity following welcome results in elections in France and Italy at the weekend.

The €3bn IPO of Allied Irish Banks, the Irish banking group, was covered at its maximum size including the greenshoe by the end of the first day of the bookbuild on Tuesday. The deal could value the rescued financial institution at up to €13.3bn if it is priced at the top of its range.

Bond investors shrugged off state-owned oil company Petroperu’s low credit quality to pile into its debut deal in remarkable fashion as the issuer sold 15 and 30 year bonds at a tighter spread to the sovereign than its Mexican counterpart Pemex.