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Property developer Country Garden Holdings has signed a $1.5bn dual currency syndicated loan for general corporate purposes, including prepayment of debt.

Equity-linked bond bankers are looking forward to a lively year for issuance in Emea in 2017, as they believe market conditions will favour the product and a wide variety of issuers will find it useful.

More than half of a global group of 276 investors surveyed by HSBC have a strategy for reducing the environmental impact of their activities — but 74% of them encounter barriers to increasing their low carbon financing, mainly a lack of credible investment opportunities.

Lloyds has become the third UK bank to soak up strong demand for holding company level senior debt in the Samurai market this year, though the lack of clarity around risk-weightings continues to limit bank treasury involvement.

Ensco, the London-headquartered offshore oil drilling contractor, has raised $750m with a popular convertible bond issue to finance a tender offer for high yield bonds due 2019 and 2020.

JP Morgan was hit hardest as the European Commission on Wednesday fined three banks a total of €485m for manipulating markets in a euro interest rate derivatives cartel.

Property firm Ezdan of Qatar has rallied 10 banks to participate in its $460m Islamic loan refinancing. All were Middle Eastern except HSBC and Industrial & Commercial Bank of China.

Green bonds have been a hot topic for several years now, but sovereign issuers have been slow to step up to the plate. Until now. Poland is on the road for a euro-denominated green bond and is meeting investors in London this week.

The first ever sovereign green bond looks set to be issued by Poland — a coal-reliant nation that was once one of the most outspoken opponents of the UN’s Paris Agreement. Despite incredulity from green finance experts, the deal is an important step for green financing. It raises the environmental agenda within Poland, and offers a firmer commitment to green financing than displayed by any other sovereign so far.

After completing a roadshow last week, US orthopaedic reconstructive products producer Zimmer Biomet made its debut in the euro bond market on Tuesday with a dual tranche transaction.

Middle East banks will compete for a role in the Emirate of Sharjah's loan because the deal is likely to be an attractively priced, dirham denominated deal, according to two bankers in the region.

Five lenders have joined HSBC at the top level of Saudi British Bank’s (SABB’s) $450m syndicated loan, the bank’s first dollar deal from international lenders.