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The return to health of the investment grade corporate bond market has been a carefully trodden path, one step at a time. On Wednesday, French electrical components manufacturer Schneider printed a successful nine year new issue, following corporate deals with eight and seven year tenors on the previous days of the week.

Macquarie Group has signed a £2bn loan that features green tranches, as the seemingly inexorable rise of the product continues unabated.

One of HSBC’s co-heads of Latin American DCM has left for Scotiabank.

Allocations for a €3.025bn acquisition loan from Czech investment fund PPF Group are due in the next few days, according to a lead.

Industrial Bank of Korea mandated banks for a social bond issuance on Tuesday, viewing the product as a natural fit for the first transaction from its socially responsible bond framework. Meanwhile, ICBC Asia is looking to sell a new green deal.

Matthew Westerman and Julian Metherell, who both spent over 10 years as partners at Goldman Sachs, will run a new private investment firm together with Greek shipping tycoon, Peter Livanos,

CPPIB Capital will sell its first ever green bond this week, coming on the heels of a French region’s foray into green and sustainability bonds.

SSA borrowers are streaming into the euro market, flooding the early part of the week with deals in an effort to secure funding before a slew of central bank meetings towards the end of the week.

Unrealistic pricing expectations are keeping two EM corporate issuers by the wayside after volatile markets forced Atrium to cancel a tender offer combined with a new issue last week.

CCB International, a subsidiary of China Construction Bank Corp, has returned to the offshore loan market after a three-year absence for a $500m deal.

In a rare instance for CEE countries, Romania has printed 30 year dollar bonds.

HSBC has named Sean Henderson and Sean McNelis as co-heads of debt capital markets, Asia Pacific, with immediate effect, according to a memo seen by GlobalCapital Asia.