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British American Tobacco has offered the sterling market its second long dated bond in as many days, a £350m 40 year tranche as part of a €1.1bn offering.

Groupe SEB, the unrated French domestic appliances manufacturer, pulled in a €2.5bn order book for a €500m no-grow bond on Wednesday.

Bahrain took $1.5bn from a dual tranche deal this week. But despite the unusual size of each tranche and the lack of price tightening, rival bankers kept their knives sheathed in recognition of how difficult the Middle East market has become.

Aldi, the German discount supermarket chain, has signed a private club loan for around €600m with six banks. The deal is the company's first syndicated loan, according to bankers.

Public sector borrowers are putting the final touches to their funding programmes for the year amid stable market conditions, but there are few signs that any will pre-fund for 2016 in large size.

Teva Pharmaceutical Industries “just scraped home” with very tight pricing on the $33.75bn loan it signed on Monday. Only around half the banks invited participated because margins were so tight, said a banker close to the deal.

More details have emerged on Chinese technology firm Tencent Holdings’ $1.25bn loan that went into limited syndication last week.

Hong Kong property company New World Development has picked banks to arrange investor meetings ahead of a proposed dollar offering.

Victory City Co has approached the syndicated loan market for a HK$2.388bn ($308m) fundraising that has seven bookrunners at the helm.

Green bond issuance is enjoying its busiest quarter ever as deals from the International Finance Corporation and ING Bank on Tuesday took volume to a record level.

AP Moeller-Maersk, the Danish shipping conglomerate, has raised its first benchmark euro bond since issuing a profit warning in October, a €600m seven year trade.

Bahrain opened books on a dual tranche dollar deal on Tuesday morning, which some investors think could be its last as a pure investment grade credit.