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This Thursday was Fat Thursday, a Polish equivalent of Pancake Day, celebrated by the consumption of doughnuts. But Poland’s Ministry of Finance fed socially responsible investors a different treat this year: €2bn of green bonds.

Loan investors succeeded in the ‘game of chicken’ in setting deal terms on the first two major new money acquisition loans in the European market this year, winning a package of concessions that could help achieve a better balance between borrowers and lenders in a market that has seen documentation deteriorate.

Two Turkish issuers were back on screens this week as the country continues its rehabilitation in the capital markets. QNB Finansbank printed with a 10bp new issue premium, according to one lead manager, a level which he said shows how far Turkey has come since the sovereign paid up 50bp for its post-volatility return to market trade in October.

Koç Holding, Turkey's largest holding company, has mandated three banks for a five or seven year dollar RegS/144A benchmark. An investor has said that given recent Turkey volatility, he would want to see a much larger premium over the Turkey curve for the longer of those two options.

QNB Finansbank has revised initial price thoughts for its benchmark dollar 5.5 year bond, with books for the deal over $1.4bn. Both an investor and a syndicate official had said earlier in the day they expected tighter pricing.

Poland is in the market for its most ambitious green bonds yet. It has opened books for two tranches of euro debt, hitting the 10 and 30 year maturity buckets.

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Almarai, the largest dairy company in the Middle East, sold its $500m five year sukuk on Tuesday having drawn a huge $5.3bn of demand for the deal — the first from a Saudi investment grade private corporate issuer.

Turkish lender QNB Finansbank has mandated six banks to arrange a dollar 5.5 year Reg S/144A benchmark senior bond, the first senior bond from a Turkish bank since March.

Colgate-Palmolive, the US consumer products company, has added to the recent splurge of new reverse Yankee supply with a €1bn dual-tranche that was seven times oversubscribed.

Almarai, the largest dairy company in the Middle East, has tightened price guidance for its dollar benchmark sukuk as investors jump on the offer of exposure to a company of “critical importance to Saudi and the GCC”.

JP Morgan has boosted its Australia equity capital markets team with the appointment of Mark Bellofiore, a former Goldman Sachs banker, according to a source familiar with the matter.