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Europe’s high grade corporate bond market had a patchy week of issuance, with borrowers dancing around the overhang from the US Federal Reserve meeting and Thursday’s Bank of England equivalent.

Snam, the Italian energy infrastructure company, managed only a tepid reaction from the market on Thursday with a 10 year transition bond, as highly rated names continue to find it tough to get full throated support at such tight levels.

Animal healthcare company Huvepharma has opened the books on its €463m IPO on the Amsterdam Stock Exchange.

ING Turkey, a subsidiary of the Dutch banking group, has signed an ESG-linked syndicated loan, making it the latest Turkish lender to embrace labelled debt, a trend that bankers insist is motivated by a commitment to sustainability and not simply an attempt to lower pricing.

UK firms Anglian Water and care home company Assura ducked into the sterling bond market on Wednesday, ahead of the Bank of England meeting on Thursday, and both obtained comfortable oversubscription on their benchmark deals.

Indian software services provider Coforge, previously known as NIIT Technologies, is seeking a loan to fund a dividend recapitalisation, joining a growing list of companies raising debt to pay a special dividend to shareholders.

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Heimstaden Bostad, the Swedish housing company, had a trickier time in the market with its hybrid capital issue on Thursday than Poste Italiane had a day earlier, suggesting that there is still some sectoral sensitivity among yield-hungry corporate bond buyers.

Naturgy Energy, the Spanish gas and electricity utility, has doubled the size of its revolving credit facility in an amend and extend exercise, the latest demonstration that the balance of power in the loan market remains firmly on the side of the borrowers.

Bayfront Infrastructure Management has sold the world's first public sustainability securitization deal that was part of a rare project finance trade. Its chief executive tells GlobalCapital Asia that this is unlikely to be its last.

French insurer Macif hit all the subordinated formats available to insurance issuers on Monday, as it attracted a bumper €14bn book for a triple tranche deal to fund its acquisition of Aviva France.

Two European animal healthcare companies have announced their intention to float in recent days. Bankers hope that the fast growing sector will offer something different in a crowded pipeline of new stockmarket listings in the region.