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Standard Bank filled its vacant head of DCM post with a hire from JP Morgan after Megan McDonald was promoted to head of international investment banking last year.

The IPO of Innogy was voted Equity Capital Markets Deal of the Year and JP Morgan judged ECM Bank of the Year in GlobalCapital's 2016 Awards - read the full results here.

Six borrowers announced offerings in the European high yield bond market on Monday as borrowers looked to beat what could have been disruptive Dutch elections two days later.

The recent volatility in the bond market ahead of an imminent US interest rate hike did not concern repeat issuer Bank of Communications Financial Leasing Co (BoCom Leasing), which ventured out on Tuesday and printed a $2bn triple trancher, extending its curve to 10 years.

The European Investment Bank has tapped its longest green line, adding €500m to the November 2037 Climate Awareness Bond.

Oversea-Chinese Banking Corporation (OCBC) stepped into the euro covered bond market for the first time with a well received €500m deal that capitalised on strong technical demand in the five year part of the curve.

Kuwait nipped in on Monday ahead of the Fed decision this week to raise $8bn with its debut bond, establishing a liquid benchmark at the five and 10 year parts of the curve. While the emphatic statement the deal made was not in question, there was debate about the bonds’ relative value against other Gulf sovereigns.

Bank of Communications Financial Leasing Co (BoCom Leasing) is set to become the first leasing arm of a bank in Asia ex-Japan to tap offshore investors in 2017, having opened books for a new dollar-denominated transaction.

Latin America bond investors said that hopes of Bolivia’s new bonds receiving strong support from local buyers allowed the sovereign to print a new deal well inside better rated credits on Monday.

Gestamp Automoción, the Spanish car parts maker, has begun investor education for what is likely to be the largest European IPO of the year so far, after its Ebitda grew by 10.6% in 2016.

BMC Software, the US IT management firm, joined a packed European leveraged finance market on Monday with a €650m term loan refinancing, one of several deals launched since late last week.

Oversea-Chinese Banking Corporation Limited (OCBC) will become the third Singaporean borrower to issue a euro-denominated covered bond this year and is expected to open order books for its debut deal on Tuesday. The deal is going to be a rare five year, so it is likely to get good execution.