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Online travel booking group Expedia made its euro bond debut on Thursday, a seven year deal that will be used to help fund its acquisition of rival company Orbitz.

French car rental company Europcar, which last week filed for an IPO, received on Wednesday strong demand for its €475m refinancing offer.

The Republic of Korea has mandated two banks for a credit update with bond investors in London next week.

Cellnex Telecom, the broadcasting towers business of infrastructure group Abertis, plans to issue its first bonds to reshape its €1.1bn of corporate debt.

Tuesday night’s two substantial block trades, in Dutch insurer NN Group and SSP, the UK catering company, both went well despite softness in equity markets before and during the trades.

International Airlines Group, owner of British Airways and Iberia, will use a €1.4bn loan to finance its cash offer of the same size for Aer Lingus.

Goldman Sachs may pay the biggest bonuses, but JP Morgan pays its bankers the most generous remuneration packages overall, according to new research.

Chinese biotech firm 3SBio has bagged $150m from some heavyweight cornerstone investors including GIC and BlackRock ahead of launching its HK$5.51bn ($712m) Hong Kong IPO, putting the company’s second flotation on a very strong footing.

ING Group launched a €1.18bn sale of shares in NN Group, its former insurance and investment arm, on Tuesday evening, in the larger of two block trades of the day.

Darling Ingredients, the Texas-based food ingredients maker, is marketing a €515m senior unsecured bond to repay borrowings under its euro term loan ‘B’.

Europcar, the French car rental company which last week filed for an IPO, began a three day roadshow on Tuesday for a €475m high yield bond issue.

Medical Properties Trust, the US real estate investment trust, on Tuesday began sounding European investors for a euro bond.