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Greece and NRW.Bank added to the week’s primary euro public sector supply on Wednesday ahead of a closely watched European Central Bank governing council meeting on Thursday.

Europe’s high grade corporate issuers piled into the bond market during the run-up to this week’s European Central Bank meeting, with Vonovia and JDE Peet’s bringing standout jumbo trades.

Hong Kong developer Pacific Century Premium Developments (PCPD) printed a $700m deal on Tuesday as part of its efforts to tender a 2022 bond.

Pharmaron Beijing Co brought the first renminbi-linked but dollar settled convertible bond to the market in nearly five years this week, raising $600m from the dual tranche deal. Bankers called it a ‘smashing success’ and said the issue pipeline from the pharmaceutical sector is strengthening. Rashmi Kumar reports.

Enel, a long term sustainable finance champion, took €10.4bn of orders for its triple tranche sustainability-linked notes this week, but needed to pay up for longer maturities as inflation worries persisted.

FMO, the Dutch development agency, hit the market on Tuesday for a $500m five year bond.

Digital 9 Infrastructure, the London-listed fund focused on digital assets, increased the size of its first follow-on share sale due to the strength of demand from investors.

French insurer Macif is set to issue up to €1.75bn of subordinated debt to fund its coming acquisition of Aviva France.

JP Morgan has named Cindy Xu as head of fintech investment banking for Asia, the latest move to expand the firm's regional technology team.

Two issuers in Europe’s high grade corporate bond headed to the short part of their curves on Monday as inflation worries continue to rattle the market ahead of the European Central Bank meeting on Thursday.

Buyers piled into a debut sustainability-linked bond from Italian oil major Eni on Monday, despite there being some pushback from investors over higher polluting issuers coming to the ESG markets.

American insurer Equitable is set to sell its first funding agreement-backed (FAB) note in euros, almost one year after it launched its FAB programme.