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Spain’s Abanca sold the year’s first subordinated deal in euros on Thursday, when it issued a perpetual non-call 5.5 year additional tier one (AT1) bond to help optimise its capital structure.

Invesco has sold the last of its stake in IP Group, the investment company focused on the commercialisation of university-developed intellectual property, through an accelerated bookbuild on Wednesday night.

Amélie Darrort, co-head of the euro medium term note desk and head of French public sector debt capital markets at JP Morgan, will be relocating from London to Paris in the summer as part of a post-Brexit relocation, GlobalCapital understands.

London-listed transport booking app Trainline has tapped the equity-linked market for the first time by issuing a £150m ($204m) convertible bond.

Diversification has taken hold in central Asia's Uzbekistan, which over the last two years has started its pivot towards international capital markets. According to sources, a plethora of debut deals is expected to hit markets in coming months.

Singaporean ride-hailing company Grab Holdings has added a dash of excitement to the loan market with plans to raise $750m from a new outing. Pan Yue reports.

State Bank of India successfully raised $600m with a bond issue underwritten by leading investment banks on Wednesday, just weeks after big investors divested from its green bonds because of its apparent intention to finance the controversial Carmichael coal mine being developed in Australia.

Public sector borrowers soaked up huge demand in the euro market on Tuesday including the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, which printed its biggest ever 100 year bond despite offering a yield of less than 1%.

The dollar SSA market leapt into action on Tuesday with an impressive deal from the European Investment Bank. Two more are set to follow on Wednesday, including a 10 year benchmark.

Standard Chartered and Crédit Agricole jumped into the long end of the yield curve on Tuesday, as the pair looked to harness the desire for long-dated dollar debt.

A pair of senior non-preferred bonds from Swedbank and Société Générale on Tuesday followed Monday’s opener from ING. With three household names now having established pricing points, rarer borrowers are starting to fill the pipeline.

American insurers Metropolitan Life and Athene Holding had a busy start to the year as they tapped the sterling, euro and dollar markets to issue a quartet of funding agreement backed (FAB) securities.