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South Korea’s Woori Bank sealed its third Basel III additional tier one deal on Monday, raising $500m just before the country held its long-awaited presidential election.

Pemberton has hired a veteran leveraged finance banker as a new partner in its origination team, as it further builds out its private debt platform in Europe.

Argentine energy company Capex and Mexican financial Unifin showed that conditions were as strong as ever in Latin American bond market as both high yield names notches blow-out new issues.

Public sector issuers “can do whatever they want” in a rampant dollar market, with investors ploughing into books despite deals pricing close to or flat to their curves.

The European Financial Stability Facility has sent requests for proposals for a trade next week, as a pair of rare issuers on Wednesday placed deals flat to or through fair value in a euro market buoyed by Emmanuel Macron’s election as French president last weekend. Longer dated trades — of which the EFSF has sold several this year — also look to be back on the table for borrowers.

PSP Investments, the Canadian pension investment manager, has expanded its operations with the launch of a European hub, and wants to invest increasingly in private debt and real estate.

Eurobond offerings from US high yield borrowers may be harder to find in the second quarter of the year as pricing terms improve for US borrowers.

KfW has sold the largest ever new green bond issue from a supranational or European agency, printing flat to its curve with a green deal for the first time and drawing a remarkably high level of Asian investor interest for a euro trade. More SRI issuance is on the way, after Dutch agency FMO announced a sustainability bond roadshow.

The largest European high yield bond issue for a year is being prepared as Intrum Justitia and Lindorff, two Nordic debt collectors, ready to complete a merger.

Bpifrance Financement broke its size record on Tuesday, nipping back into capital markets ahead of several of its compatriots, according to a funding official at the issuer. The European Investment Bank (EIB) and NRW.Bank also made the most of the stable conditions, printing their own benchmarks.

Another director in JP Morgan’s leveraged finance team for EMEA has left the bank, a source confirmed on Tuesday, joining a credit fund in London.

AMTD Strategic Capital Group, the insurance brokerage arm of AMTD Group, is planning to list in Hong Kong, according to a filing with the stock exchange on Monday.