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Thames Water priced a £300m senior secured no-grow bond on Thursday, clinching the deal after two weeks of volatility in its outstanding bonds.

US biotechnology company Amgen made its dash into primary corporate bond markets on Thursday with a dual tranche deal that took €2bn out of the market.

High yield bankers insist that the European market will not be paralysed by some of the banks holding debt they have been unable to sell, even after the failure of last week's €1.55bn financing for LeasePlan.

(updated with more detailed analysis 2.20pm) Vodafone is today issuing an unprecedented £2.88bn mandatory convertible bond, with many innovative features, that combines aspects of two recent trends in the market: the equity-neutral CB and the subordinated, equity-accounted deal.

Nordic Investment Bank is preparing a three year dollar benchmark, following a KfW five year deal that had to brave a backdrop of negative swap spreads.

Investors have only been offered a tap of a Bahrain bond in the CEEMEA primary market this week so far, but it has been far from quiet as other events and people moves in EM caught the eye.

KfW hit screens with a five year dollar benchmark on Tuesday that is offering the issuer’s widest swap spread at the tenor in several years, which bankers away from the mandate attributed to negative swap spreads and market-wide volatility last week.

Rocket Internet, the German start-up incubator, has said it will spend up to €150m this year to buy back some of the €550m convertible bond it issued only last July.

By the second day of Saipem’s auction of its unsold rights, all of them had been sold to investors — but with the share price still 3.3% below the subscription price at Thursday's close, the underwriters may yet have to buy up to €427m of stock.

Saipem's share price rose 13.7% on Monday morning, bringing some relief to bookrunners on the firm’s rights issue, which are facing up to€427m of exposure to its shares. By the end of the day, however, the stock was up just 1.4%.

After LeasePlan postponed its €1.55bn bond last week, US software producer Solera Holdings stands alone in the European high yield market as it roadshows a $2bn acquisition bond. But some bankers said that it will be hard for the Texan issuer to draw any lessons from LeasePlan's pain.

Carnival Corporation, the US cruise ship operator, returned to the euro bond market for the second time in under four months with a €500m five year deal on Monday.