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Spanish IT company Amadeus will complete its €500m revolving credit facility later this week with some changes to its bank group, according to a banker familiar with the deal.

Bankinter will begin meeting investors for a sale of additional tier one bonds on Wednesday, while fellow Spaniard Banco Sabadell and Italy’s UBI Banca are also set to issue capital in the next few days.

JP Morgan paid a negligible premium for a 10.5 year euro senior unsecured deal on Monday, as it became the last major US bank to issue following earnings.

Citi has named a new head of its EMEA FIG investment banking group, hiring Piers Davison, former EMEA head of banks and UK head of FIG at JP Morgan.

The European Central Bank’s (ECB) decision to include insurance companies in its Corporate Sector Purchase Programme (CSPP), helped JP Morgan’s Sfr200m bond on Friday, allowing undersupplied Swiss investors a chance to buy.

BOC Aviation has begun investor education for its $2bn IPO in Hong Kong, with pre-marketing expected to continue into the early part of next week, said a source close to the transaction.

Oil and gas giant China Petroleum & Chemical Corp (Sinopec) opened books for a 144A/Reg S triple-tranche dollar offering on Monday, taking advantage of a buoyant primary Asian bond market.

PQ Corp, the US inorganic chemicals producer, and Inovyn, the UK-headquartered chorvinyls producer — both partly owned by Ineos, the petrochemicals company — are marketing over $2bn of refinancing debt over the coming days.

A 10 year deal from JP Morgan on Friday showed US banks are finding more opportunities for Swiss franc funding than their European peers.

Argentina fever has gripped financial markets after the sovereign’s record breaking return to international bond markets this week, with sub-sovereigns likely to be the first to take advantage of the clamour for bonds.

Banco Nacional de Costa Rica (BNCR) sold the first ever high yield green bond from Latin America on Wednesday, jumping on the momentum in a buoyant market provided by Argentina’s jumbo bond comeback.

European Central Bank president Mario Draghi kept his powder dry at his latest monetary policy meeting on Thursday, sending eurozone government bond yields higher — something that is likely to be welcomed in the offices of the European Stability Mechanism.