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Austrian sensor maker AMS said on Tuesday that it intended to sell all its treasury shares, ahead of its looming €1.64bn rights issue to finance its takeover of Osram Licht, the German lighting manufacturer.

Intermediate Capital Group, the UK alternative asset manager rated BBB by Fitch, is in the market for a seven year euro bond on Tuesday, according to two bankers away from the deal.

Calisen Group, the UK operator of smart meters, has set a price range for its IPO on the London Stock Exchange, following a constructive investor education process. It will come at a discount to listed peers.

Czech lottery firm Sazka ventured into the euro high yield market again this week, issuing €300m of seven-year senior unsecured notes. The deal comes after Sazka made a successful debut in mid-November.

World Bank appointed banks for a December 2026 sterling bond on Monday. The issuer will be the third public sector borrower in the last week to access this part of the sterling curve in order to achieve a more attractive funding cost versus euros and dollars.

Telefonica, the Spanish telecommunications company, issued senior and hybrid bonds in euros on Monday. While it picked a horrendous day for markets for its offer, Telefonica still managed to pay small or negative price concessions relative to its secondary curve.

Indorama Ventures, a petrochemicals company headquartered in Bangkok, has mandated banks to raise Schuldscheine via a European subsidiary, according to several people familiar with the situation. The deal is a further sign of the instrument’s growing popularity in East Asia.

Greece and France mandated banks on Monday for new benchmark offerings at the long end of the curve, the former bringing its longest bond since the eurozone debt crisis. The sovereigns are taking advantage of a sharp rally in core and peripheral eurozone sovereign yields, partially engendered by a flight to quality over the coronavirus scare.

London-listed Warehouse REIT has signed a £220m loan, as the UK urban warehouse owner switches from bilateral to club borrowing. The deal will need to be revisited well before its five year tenor is up, as it is linked to the Libor benchmark that will essentially become obsolete for sterling trades after 2021.

Records tumbled in the US bond market this week, as Bank of America and Toronto Dominion set new pricing records.

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Three CEEMEA sovereigns — the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Romania and Ukraine — joined a market this week gripped with a frenzy of new issues. All three deals went well and drew praise and attention in their own rights.