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A Dutch agency re-opened the euro benchmark sector for SSAs on Wednesday, selling its largest bond in the currency for more than three years after opting for an intraday execution.

The dollar market for SSAs kept up this week’s sizzling form on Wednesday, as another issuer mandated for a benchmark — bringing the total for what is historically a quiet week to four deals.

August is on course to become 2015’s busiest month for bank medium term note issuance in sterling, as cash rich investors are drawn to positive spreads over quarterly Libor.

A pair of public sector borrowers — including a super rare issuer in dollars — have nipped in ahead of a data laden September to bring deals this week, following the lead of Denmark’s KommuneKredit.

Apax is acquiring a majority stake in FullBeauty Brands, the US plus-size fashion retailer, and has obtained the commitment of four banks to the deal’s debt financing.

Video surveillance solutions provider UNV Digital Technologies filed for a Hong Kong IPO on August 17 with listing tentatively scheduled for the next two to three months.

Project bond supply could be on the way from Colombia after Goldman Sachs committed to provide $1.2bn in the first leg of financing for the country’s $25bn so-called 4G infrastructure programme.

With equity capital markets at their nadir of summer somnolence, mid-August is the moment at which the year’s rivalry between investment banks can truly be said to have completed its first half, with the second semester not yet begun.

HM Sampoerna, the Indonesian arm of cigarette giant Philip Morris International, will go to shareholders to raise up to Rph26.70tr ($1.98bn) via a rights issue as it seeks to increase its free float.

US Reit Medical Properties on Wednesday sold its €500m unsecured bond drawing attention from investment and non-investment grade buyers by being the only corporate issue of the day.

Belgian and German medical diagnostics provider Amedes brought some investors who had initially declined the €525m loan back into the fold this week as deal supply fell.

German cable company Tele Columbus is allocating a €435m leveraged loan that backs its acquisition of rival Primacom, setting out its ambitions for consolidation in the sector.