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Alpha Bank was more than 10 times subscribed on its debut in the tier two market on Thursday, allowing the speculative grade Greek lender to tighten its pricing by up to 100bp and land at an impressive coupon level of 4.25%.

Avenue Supermarts, which runs Indian supermarket chain DMart, has launched a qualified institutional placement worth about Rp40bn ($561.3m).

Investors rushed to Indian company Adani Electricity Mumbai's (AEML) bond on Wednesday, flooding the $1bn deal with orders that reached more than $6bn at their peak.

Sixteen banks led Baa2/BBB rated Huatai Securities Co's $400m floating rate transaction on Wednesday.

The Export-Import Bank of Korea (Kexim) raised $500m from a five year bond on Wednesday, becoming one of the first borrowers to reopen the dollar market after Chinese New Year and the rapid spread of a new virus.

Chinese hotel company Huazhu Group, previously known as China Lodging Group, has closed its borrowing of about $1bn with 13 banks.

Three SSA issuers brought dollar deals to market on Wednesday, hitting screens in a variety of formats and tenors, making the most of excellent conditions to pull off impressive deals. A fourth is lined up for Thursday.

KfW gathered strong demand for its bond issue on Wednesday — the third seven year euro deal from an SSA issuer this week — as investors saw relative value in it. The European Stability Mechanism is looking to follow with a similar tenor after sending banks a request for proposals for its first benchmark of the year.

LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton, the French luxury goods group, and Comcast, the US telecommunications company, brought the European corporate bond market's two biggest multi-tranche issues of the year on Wednesday, each hitting sterling and euros, and blasting aside fears among some players of the economic impact of the coronavirus outbreak. LVMH raised a whopping €9.33bn, Comcast €4.6bn.

The Development Bank of Kazakhstan (DBK) released initial price guidance for a tenge-denominated five year bond on Wednesday morning in London.

The Republic of Ghana printed a $3bn triple trancher on Tuesday from a book that was $14bn at launch, in a deal that included the longest ever bond from sub-Saharan Africa.

The European Investment Bank and the Province of Quebec were well subscribed as they re-opened the dollar SSA market following the extended Lunar New Year holiday. Two more public sector borrowers will follow with dollar bonds on Wednesday, ahead of what is expected to be a busy month in the currency.