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A trio of SSA issuers made moves to mop up short end dollar demand on Tuesday. NRW Bank printed a $1bn bond and two others mandated for deals.

Cabot Credit Management, the UK debt purchasing firm, on Wednesday raised €310m of secured notes to support its buyout of peer company Hillesden Securities from Faccenda Investments.

BorgWarner, the US car engine and drivetrain maker, furthered the return of reverse Yankee bonds to Europe's corporate market on Monday, by issuing a €500m seven year no-grow deal.

Istituto Centrale delle Banche Popolari Italiane (ICBPI) began offering its €1.1bn PIK bond with fixed and floating rate tranches on Tuesday, the first time such a structure has been used in the European high yield market, according to bankers.

ICBCIL Finance, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, has set its sights on a triple-tranche dollar offering split between three and five year fixed rate notes as well as a three year floating rate tranche.

Mölnlycke, the Swedish maker of wound dressings and surgical gloves, issued a €500m eight year bond on Monday, as the corporate bond market’s awakening from earnings blackouts continued apace.

FCE Bank, the UK-based European financing arm of Ford, picked its timing to perfection for its fourth bond issue of the year, on Monday.

Amundi, Europe’s largest asset manager, is seeking a valuation of €7bn to €8.76bn in its IPO, the bookbuild for which was opened today (Monday November 2), and will sell a 2% stake to Agricultural Bank of China. Goldman Sachs has joined the top line of the deal.

Worldpay, the UK payments processing company, on Thursday sold its first bond issue, a €500m deal — in what could be the busiest string of seven trading days since July, with four more deals roadshowing.

Nordea Bank received strong demand for its first tier two debt in euros since 2012 on Monday, as the primary market remained otherwise empty.

FIG bankers breathed a sigh of relief at the US Federal Reserve’s proposal, released last Wednesday, for implementing Total Loss Absorbing Capacity (TLAC) rules for US Global Systemically Important Banks (G-SIBs), which is seen as less severe than may had anticipated. But the rule as proposed could damage secondary market liquidity.

China International Capital Corp, which brought in 11 joint global co-ordinators for its Hong Kong IPO, has priced the deal at the top of the range to raise HK$6.29bn ($812m).