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The State of Schleswig-Holstein returned to the market with a 10 year note on Tuesday. Meanwhile, KfW has announced a new five year euro deal, following on from January’s record KfW book for the maturity.

Huatai Securities, the Chinese brokerage, has revived its plan to sell $500m of global depositary receipts (GDRs) on the London Stock Exchange, having postponed the deal last year due to regulatory uncertainties.

Investors are calculating the value of Airtel Africa, the African subsidiary of Indian telecoms conglomerate Bharti Airtel, as it is going ahead with a floatation on the London Stock Exchange (LSE).

Georgia’s largest commercial bank TBC Bank is on the road to promote a dollar benchmark. The deal coincides with the bank’s push into its neighbouring markets, Azerbaijan and Uzbekistan. The bank is spearheading the move with tech platforms.

Volkswagen has rebooted the IPO of Traton, its trucks division, after the deal was delayed in March due to volatility in equity markets caused by the ongoing trade tensions between the US and China.

The first results are emerging from the worldwide drive to get companies to think about how climate change is going to affect their businesses. Over 40% of the world’s biggest firms are now able to give an estimate of how much they expect to lose and gain. Collectively, they forecast twice as much upside as downside. But this may be optimistic, especially as the data are skewed to financial services.

JP Morgan has appointed Xavier Bindel as co-head of technology investment banking for Europe, the Middle East and Africa, as it seeks to improve its capabilities in a brisk area of business.

Adani Green Energy made its dollar market debut on Thursday, nabbing $500m with a green trade.

MasterCard ventured into volatile markets on Tuesday to print its first bond since February 2018, but investors paid the price as spreads widened.

To believe their PR, banks are now paragons of clean, sustainable economic development.

US utilities continued to dominate dollar corporate bond issuance this week, as defensive names piled into the market before trade tensions slammed the brakes on supply on Wednesday. But issuers fought back on Thursday.

The Russian sovereign could soon issue its next Eurobond, with both euros and dollars on the table. But if it does launch a deal, the move will be as much financing as it will be a political play to help defend the country from more US sanctions. Francesca Young reports.