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CDP Financial is out with initial price thoughts on a two year fixed rate dollar benchmark trade, with syndicate bankers tipping this week to be busy for SSA issuers.

Global Fashion Group, the emerging markets-focused online fashion retailer, intends to raise €300m to finance its growth via an IPO on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange, the company said in a statement on Monday.

Standard Chartered has poached James Cameron from HSBC, appointing him global head for power, utilities and infrastructure (PUI) and clean technology.

Buyers of credit default swap protection on bonds issued by Rallye, the holding company of French supermarket chain Casino, will find out on Friday how their positions might be settled, reports Owen Sanderson.

Portugal sold its long-awaited debut Panda bond on Thursday, becoming just the third European sovereign and the first from the eurozone to tap China’s bond market.

Isabel Martin Vazquez, a former supranational, sovereign and agency and emerging markets debt capital markets banker at Barclays, has joined Spanish advisory firm Didendum as a partner, to lead an expansion of its business from London.

South Korean oil refiner GS Caltex Corp raised $300m from a senior bond on Wednesday.

Agile Group Holdings raised $600m from its latest perpetual bond sale on Monday. But the execution of the transaction came under fire from bankers away from the deal, and those on the trade admitted that things did not go as planned.

European elections, which produced relief in much of Europe and some horror in the UK, have not fazed corporate bond markets. But they may have caused this week's dearth of issuance. Illinois Tool Works' three trancher on Wednesday may be the only fruit. But investors' diaries are filling up with roadshow dates.

Delhi International Airport (Dial) offered investors a rare 10 year high yield bond on Tuesday, securing the company $350m from a more than six times subscribed order book.

Spanish infrastructure and renewable energy company Acciona has returned to the Schuldschein market with a €150m-minimum triple tranche transaction. As lenders begin to loosen lines to Italy and Spain, arrangers said there may be more borrowers from those countries to come.

Agile Group Holdings raised $600m from its latest issue on Monday, only for its notes fall in the secondary market on Tuesday.