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National Australia Bank is out with a five year floating rate senior deal, following on recently rediscovered demand for such paper last week, when a handful of deals were successfully placed either privately or on the public market with investors.

Piraeus Bank has built a blowout book for its three year bond, in a transaction that could herald the coming of a wider array of peripheral borrowers.

Bulgaria has mandated three bookrunners for its next Eurobond after sending out an RFP in early February.

CEE sovereign issuers are standing firm this week, boldly pressing on with their bond issuance plans despite President Vladimir Putin's draft bill approving Russia's annexing of Crimea and the sanctions imposed on Russia by the US and the EU.

China’s onshore equity market will grow to $10tr by 2020 – and will be included in global indices by 2015 – prospects which make the asset class too important to ignore, according to HSBC.

Watson, the flagship retail group of Asia’s richest man, could list on more than one exchange later this year. If it does, it will become the latest in a wave of Chinese companies to consider making their debut at bourses other than the Hong Kong Stock Exchange.

Indonesia’s CT Corp has wrapped up syndication of its $1.275bn fundraising, netting commitments worth $555m from a group of 19 banks.

Hong Kong-listed Citic Pacific hit the market with a HK$8.8bn ($1.13bn) loan on the evening of March 17, with bankers on the transaction expecting a quick turnaround from lenders considering the deal in syndication.

Volkswagen showed its elite status in the debt capital market again today by issuing €3bn of hybrid capital – the largest corporate hybrid ever sold entirely in euros.

Carrefour Banque managed to brave and overcome the broad market turmoil that set in during the second half of last week, pricing its €500m senior unsecured floating rate note to become the only European senior issuer in the market on Friday.

Yanlord Land Group is preparing to make its first appearance in the Singapore dollar market.

Olam International, which is the target of a proposed acquisition by Singapore’s Temasek Holdings, is expected to launch its $1.2bn fundraising into syndication on the week of March 24.