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Arima Real Estate, a newly created Spanish real estate investment trust, has managed to get its IPO over the line, but with a much smaller deal size than originally intended.

One of Europe’s major electricity producers, Portugal’s EDP, sold its first green bond on Tuesday, aligning its fundraising with the company’s green principles. Meanwhile, Dutch airport owner and operator Royal Schiphol Group announced plans for its debut green bond. Both followed French vehicle leasing company ALD’s inaugural green bond.

Romania was able to cut the spreads on both tranches of its euro benchmark on Thursday.

LeasePlan, the Dutch car leasing company, has launched its IPO on the Amsterdam and Brussels bourses, having filed an intention to float document on Thursday.

Romania hit screens on Thursday morning for its second dual tranche euro benchmark of the year.

ING’s German subsidiary has issued its largest ever Pfandbrief, one of the biggest from a German borrower this year, which, in the context of a volatile market backdrop, was deemed a great success.

Germany’s Uniper has refinanced its syndicated credit facility early, with the energy group joining a growing trend of borrowers trimming the number of banks in its lending group.

When UK telecoms company Vodafone announced in May that it had agreed to buy some of US rival Liberty Global’s European operations, it said it would use existing cash, €3bn of mandatorily convertible bonds and new debt, including hybrid bonds to fund the €18.4bn acquisition. On Wednesday, Vodafone sold the hybrid bonds, using four different tenors in three currencies. Nigel Owen reports.

French electricity utility EDF continued a busy September with the first hybrid corporate bond deal in the euro market for more than two months on Tuesday. It also sold a new senior trade in euros, following a $3.75bn triple tranche deal in the US the previous week.

Energy and commodities trader Mercuria is back in the loan market for its annual fundraising, seeking a $1.1bn multi-tranche borrowing.

When UK telecoms company Vodafone announced in May that it had agreed to buy some of US rival Liberty Global’s European operations, it said it would use existing cash, €3bn of mandatorily convertible bonds and new debt, including hybrid bonds to fund the €18.4bn acquisition. On Wednesday, Vodafone sold the hybrid bonds, using four different tenors in three currencies.

ADO Properties is seeking to raise Schuldschein debt, a month after shelving a eight year public bond after a high profile bribery case in Israel implicated its chairman.