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China Jianyin Investment (JIC), an equity investment group, launched a euro-dollar combo transaction on Thursday morning, its first international debt offering.

Cores, Spain’s strategic oil reserves manager, has returned to capital markets for the first time in two years, defying Spain's political turmoil to raise €400m while slashing 7bp from its initial spread.

Greece has fired the starting gun on its latest debt rehabilitation effort, after launching a roughly €30bn exchange offer for 20 bonds it issued as part of its restructuring in 2012.

Singapore’s green bond market cracked open a bit further on Tuesday when Canadian life insurer Manulife Financial Corp sold a S$500m ($367.5m) tier two bond, only the second green deal in the currency.

Fixed-line telecom operator WTT HK priced a $670m bond on Tuesday, with the rare Hong Kong high yield name attracting robust investor interest. Despite a choppy market, the issuer tightened pricing by 37.5bp, and the notes held up well in secondary.

Two green issuers from China are wooing buy-side accounts for new bonds, with Concord New Energy Group and Bank of China collecting investor orders from Wednesday morning.

Three issuers launched social bonds on the same day on Tuesday, which is likely a first for the SSA market. They raised a combined €1.5bn across five, seven and 10 years, with two of the deals managing to make dramatic moves in pricing thanks to what one banker called "superb conditions".

The last time British Telecommunications sold sterling bonds, the global financial crisis was still beyond the horizon. It returned on Tuesday after more than 10 years only issuing in euros and dollars, but investors were not as welcoming as the issuer may have expected.

Investors in green corporate bonds had two very different deals offered to them on Tuesday. Spanish utility Iberdrola sold a green hybrid bond, while Toyota Motor Credit Corp, Toyota’s auto finance subsidiary, offered a long 3.5 year green tranche alongside a seven year non-green tranche.

HSBC will speak to investors from Tuesday about its new sustainable development goal (SDG) bond framework, with a deal expected to follow.

Abu Dhabi National Oil Co, the oil company owned by the emirate, has announced plans to float its chain of petrol stations in the United Arab Emirates, in what could be a highly significant deal for the region.

China South City Holdings and Wuhan Dangdai Science & Technology Industries (Group) Co grabbed a total of $600m from bonds on Monday, navigating a weak market backdrop to close their deals.