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The International Finance Corporation has mandated banks to lead a 10 year dollar bond in what will be the fourth public sector borrower to sell a bond in this part of the curve this week.

ICBC Financial Leasing Co chose price over size for its first outing to the dollar bond market this year, but still managed to raise a larger-than-expected $900m.

Hong Kong property company Hysan Development Co used a fixed-for-life structure for its $300m perpetual bond on Tuesday, taking advantage of the low interest rate environment to lock in pricing.

KfW opened up a window for 10 year dollar bonds in the public sector market on Tuesday amid a rise in long-dated US Treasury yields with two more borrowers hoping to find similar success in the tenor on Wednesday.

Santander UK has been quick to price a new deal in the US dollar market after its results, making a saving over the funding levels on offer in euros or sterling.

Metals and mining firm Vedanta Resources’ $1.4bn bond this week took it one step closer to the planned delisting of a subsidiary. But the company took an unusual approach to the deal — a rare bond outing for a take-private in Asia — by offering investors a secured and callable amortising bond. Morgan Davis reports.

Spanish telecommunications infrastructure company Cellnex has finished its €4bn rights issue to fund further M&A opportunities, with an extremely high oversubscription.

Soaring demand and tight spreads lured repeat borrowers as summer dollar bond supply soared with $34bn of new issuance crammed into four days.

The Inter-American Development Bank (IADB) broke the silence in the SSA market with a Canadian dollar sustainable development bond. The deal shared the market with a dollar trade from Kommuninvest, with both issuers steering clear of the almost dormant euro market.

Citi has taken market share from other banks in the past year to become one of only four that account for 60% of all secondary market covered bond volume traded on Bloomberg so far this year, thanks to a combination of devoting balance sheet to trading and having the appetite to take risk.

Ke Holdings sealed a $2.12bn IPO on the New York Stock Exchange this week, the largest US listing by a Chinese firm in more than two years, defying the shock caused by US sanctions against one of its largest shareholders, Tencent Holdings. Jonathan Breen reports.

India's placements market is heating up, with new issuers set to raise fresh equity.