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One lone £350m bond, from Volkswagen Financial Services, crept into the European corporate bond market on Thursday, as a public holiday in parts of Germany left the euro market without a good chunk of its investor base.

United Group has launched a €200m add-on to finance its acquisition of Tele2 Croatia.

Trainline, the UK transport booking website, has priced its London listing near the top its revised range and grown the IPO to satisfy investor demand.

Black Sea Trade and Development Bank sold its $400m five year bond on Wednesday at a spread flat to inside its own curve, despite some changes to the maturity of the deal.

The Republic of Serbia’s first international bond for six years took advantage of a wave of bond buying, after European Central Bank President Mario Draghi’s comments earlier this week signalled a growing chance of eurozone rate cuts.

Just two months after a dovish US Federal Reserve lured América Móvil to the dollar bond market for the first time in eight years, the Mexican telecoms giant was again able to make the most of benevolent central bank talk on Wednesday as it jumped on a rates rally in Europe for its first euro trade since 2016.

The rally set off European Central Bank president Mario Draghi's assertion on Tuesday that further quantitative easing was possible, if not probable, had reached a level by Wednesday that astonished bankers. Three investment grade companies took advantage that day with benchmark bond issues, while one brought a tap.

A managing director in JP Morgan’s emerging markets team has retired.

A group of pre-IPO shareholders in Adyen, the Dutch payments company, have sold €311.8m of stock in response to reverse enquiries from investors. The Slovenian government also took advantage of the momentum in the blocks market to sell another 10% of NLB, the country’s largest bank.

The Republic of Serbia’s first international bond in six years — a euro 10 year deal — has drawn a healthy book of over €4.5bn.

Black Sea Trade and Development Bank has updated price talk for its five year dollar benchmark with order books around $1.7bn.

Vue International’s revamped refinancing has tightened doc terms and pricing at the same time, ahead of commitments later on Tuesday, making it harder for part-owner Omers to take money out through its sub-debt —while also narrowing the OID and testing tighter pricing. The issuer may also include a sterling carve-out.