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The Commercial Bank of Dubai has mandated six banks to arrange a Reg S dollar benchmark bond, and is starting the roadshow for the deal on Thursday.

Eurogrid, the German electricity grid operator, swept through the primary bond market at pace on Tuesday with an €880m dual tranche issue that showed there was life in the long dated market.

ING is awaiting commitments from Gategroup’s relationship banks for a €250m facility it underwrote last week, according to a banker on the deal.

The syndication timeline for a $145m loan backing the Blackstone Group’s acquisition of some Indian assets has been pushed back.

SNS Bank sold €500m of tier two debt on Thursday, making a convincing return to capital issuance having been expropriated by the Dutch government in 2013.

Romanian utility company CEZ Distribution has signed a Leu675m (€152m) EBRD-arranged financing which is the first long tenor syndicated loan in Romanian new lei that the development bank has arranged.

The syndication timeline for a $145m loan backing the Blackstone Group’s acquisition of some Indian assets has been pushed back.

Eurogrid, the German electricity grid operator, swept through the primary bond market at pace on Tuesday with an €880m issue that showed there was life in the long dated market.

There were no new issues in the European FIG market on Monday, but bankers are optimistic that bank capital could return this week.

A syndicate banker on ING’s high yield and emerging markets desk has left his position at the bank.

Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank this week made a rare appearance in Hong Kong dollars, selling what is only its second private MTN in the currency in nearly eight years.

ING has laid out the shape of its high yield joint venture between lending and DCM, which will be headed by new arrival Dominique LeMaire.