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Rentenbank will tap a resurgent long end dollar market on Tuesday, alongside a rare appearance in the currency from the Canadian sovereign in fives and a French agency in threes. This is only the second time in nearly two and a half years that issuers have peppered the whole of the dollar curve on the same day.

UK telecoms group Virgin Media will begin marketing a jumbo loan this week, in a market that bankers describe as awash with demand. Many issuers are returning in search of tighter margins as soon as their loan terms allow.

On Monday, French laboratory testing company Eurofins Scientific followed last Monday’s €299m equity sale with a €300m hybrid deal paying very little new issue premium, as the firm’s funding keeps pace with its acquisitions.

HSBC was looking to sell callable senior bonds in the sterling market on Monday, after its group finance director said recently that the bank would issue new debt ‘opportunistically’ if conditions remained supportive in 2017.

Equity investment group China Jianyin Investment (JIC) is readying an international bond offering, mandating banks ahead of investor meetings.

Guotai Junan International Holdings launched a 364-day dollar bond on Monday, the issuer’s first public offshore debt offering in more than three years.

Indian agrochemical producer Crystal Crop Protection has lined up a quartet of local and international firms to lead its potential Rp10bn ($154.8m) IPO, according to a banker on the mandate.

Chinese property giant China Vanke Co has priced a 10 year deal around fair value, taking $1bn out of the market. The company made the most of a strong name recognition and some rarity value, making just its third issue in the offshore bond market.

A wave of public sector borrowers is set to hit screens next week, providing investors who have recently been lacking socially responsible bond issues with a well stocked menu of ethically themed deals.

Lonza, the Swiss medical firm, is sounding the market for a $100m seven year loan, following a €870m-equivalent Schuldschein transaction in August.

Public sector borrowers are preparing a flood of dollar issuance, said bankers, after a week with just one benchmark in the currency. The lack of deals this week was down to several factors, including the anticipated naming of a new US Federal Reserve chair on Thursday.

Euro corporate bond investors see RCI Banque as a frequent borrower, pricing new issues multiple times a year, but it remains a rare name for sterling investors. Last Friday it sold its first bond in the currency for more than three years.