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Philippine-based Wilcon Depot is planning to open books on March 20 for a Ps7.9bn ($156.8m) IPO, according to a notice on the country's stock exchange.

Chinese high yield names KWG Property Holding and Kangde Xin Composite Material Group Co, as well as unrated Lenovo Group, launched dollar deals on Thursday morning — just one day after Indian high yield issuer Eros International pulled its bond because of weak demand.

Volkswagen’s main borrowing entities have not issued unsecured bonds since the company became embroiled in its diesel emissions test cheating scandal in September 2015. Last week, however, the company took a first step back, with a €900m Schuldschein issue for its financial services arm.

Guorui Properties and Kangde Xin Composite Material Group are preparing for their respective debuts in the international debt market.

HSBC is understood to be considering transferring a banker from London to take over leveraged and acquisition finance responsibilities for Asia Pacific. This follows the departures of senior Hong Kong-based bankers from the levfin and sponsor coverage teams last month.

The French government has sold the rights to new Electricité de France shares it does not want to take up as part of the company’s €4bn rights issue, though an accelerated bookbuild launched on Tuesday night.

Multilateral development banks will focus more on providing credit enhancement and support to help small, emerging market borrowers bring their green bonds to market, according to the head of climate change at the European Investment Bank. Meanwhile, a French region visited the green market on Tuesday.

Enticing conditions for Yankee issuers in the dollar market allowed HSBC to raise $5bn of holding company level senior debt in its first major deal of the year on Monday, and allowed BNP Paribas to brush aside any nervousness about the French elections for $1.25bn of tier two capital.

As the market buckles up for a March rate hike, some fixed income investors are playing it safe, becoming price sensitive to new issues. Against that backdrop, China SCE Property Holdings priced a five non call three on Monday with guidance unchanged throughout the day.

State Bank of India has increased its latest fundraising in the syndicated loan market to $750m, fully exercising a $150m greenshoe. Allocations to the foreign branches of Indian banks accounted for 40% of the final facility.

Singapore-listed commodities trader Noble Group returned to the international bond market on Monday after a hiatus of nearly three years. Despite the continuous noise around the credit, investors appear to have put the company’s past behind them as they piled into the $750m deal.

The European Stability Mechanism has nipped in ahead of a European Central Bank Governing Council meeting later this week to mandate banks for a 10 year euro benchmark. Other euro supply this week could come from Région Île-de-France, which held a global investor call on Monday for a green and sustainability bond.