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French energy company GDF Suez has issued €2.5bn of bonds in four fixed rate tranches, of two, seven, 11 and 20 years, with small new issue premiums.

Emirates NBD has mandated six banks for a European roadshow starting next week, bringing hope that the bank will print a breakthrough euro trade.

Barclays, RBS and Standard Chartered have explained how they plan to meet new total loss absorbing capital (TLAC) rules — although the rules are not yet finalised and will not come into force until 2019.

Axis Bank has begun taking orders for a $200m tap to its existing 3.25% 2020s issued last year. While the deal is not driven by reverse enquiry, bankers were confident about going ahead as they had good visibility on what accounts would want to come into the trade.

Banks are lining up to finance Cheung Kong Property’s HK$55bn ($7.1bn) loan, leaving the door open to the possibility of a further thinning in pricing.

Finland showed what is possible at a deeply negative swap spread and sub 1% yield in the long dated part of the euro curve on Tuesday.

Madrid has raised 15 year cash with its second bond in as many weeks — and the borrower’s sovereign could break its yield record at a similar tenor on Thursday.

Syngenta, the company created in 2000 through the merger of the spun-off agribusinesses of Swiss pharmaceutical company Novartis and the UK's AstraZeneca, has priced a €500m 12.5 year bond.

Edenred, the French prepayment services company, issued a €500m 10 year bond on Tuesday to fund its €150m acquisition of 34% of Germany’s Union Tank Eckstein, and to refinance debt.

Malaysia has shortlisted banks for its return the international sukuk market after four years away, and bankers expect it to announce the final mandate soon, according GlobalCapital Asia's sister publication, the Islamic Finance Information Service.

TMB Bank priced the first dim sum bond out of Thailand on March 2, raising Rmb600m ($97m) with a three year offering.

The wave of US companies issuing bonds showed no signs of breaking this week, as Michigan-based breakfast cereal and snack maker Kellogg led the charge on Monday.