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Export Development Canada is to print a long four year sterling bond as demand for paper in the currency defied fears of a possible UK's exit from the European Union.

Mexican hotel operator Grupo Posadas reopened its dollar bonds due 2022 for a further $50m on Monday in a drive-by trade that will be used mainly to refinance the $38m left under its outstanding 2017s.

Qatar has mandated banks for a dollar senior unsecured bond, which bankers away from the note are expecting to be as large as $5bn in total.

China Three Gorges Corp (CTG) is mulling a return to the dollar bond market and will be meeting investors to gauge demand starting Wednesday.

Maisons du Monde, the French furniture retailer, launched its IPO bookbuild on Monday, with UK, Dutch and South African companies as the main comparable stocks. On Thursday, the leads said the deal was covered.

The IPO of Philips Lighting, though smaller than some bankers had expected, has got off to a good start, achieving coverage on Tuesday night, after the bookbuild began on Monday.

Redes Énergeticas Nacionais, the Portuguese electricity and gas transmission grid operator, said on Monday that it will issue new bonds after completing a tender of outstanding notes.

The World Bank is set to print a five year dollar benchmark, as bankers expect issuers to focus on the short end this week.

China Merchants Securities Co is hoping to follow its peers onto the Hong Kong Stock Exchange with a third quarter listing.

South Korea’s Hotel Lotte Co, which is planning a $3bn-$5bn listing, could start bookbuilding on Friday, according to a source close to the deal.

Spanish property developer Metrovacesa on Friday printed a €700m deal, winning a healthy order book that proved the European corporate bond market still has legs despite heavy supply.

Hong Kong based Sun Hung Kai has announced the minimum yield for an exchange offer that will switch bondholders out of the firm’s 2017 notes into newer ones due 2021.