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Spain’s Red Eléctrica Corporación has signed a €500m revolving credit facility to part finance its acquisition of compatriot communication satellite company Hispasat.

Signs of weakness have crept into the FIG secondary market in recent days, but market participants expect that banks will carry on piling into the market ahead of blackout periods and an expected summer slowdown.

Luxembourg’s SES has refinanced its revolving credit facility, trimming at the margin of the €1.2bn deal as banks piled into the satellite operator’s transaction.

Country Garden seeks second borrowing in six months – UAF taps two banks for HK$1.6bn – Deutsche arranges $190m for Shangshi – Pakistan sovereign deal open – Malakoff woos banks to refi – IRFC pulls into Samurai market

Investors embraced the duration offered by Adani Ports and Special Economic Zone this week, snapping up its $750m trade and pushing the order book to a hefty peak of $4.5bn.

Motability Operations Group, the UK company that operates the UK government's scheme to provide cars for the disabled, printed a £1.438bn-equivalent euro and sterling three tranche bond on Wednesday, in a busy day that also brought a €1bn two part issue from OMV, the Austrian oil and gas company.

Investment firms BlackRock and KKR have signed a $3.275bn loan to support a pipeline partnership with the United Arab Emirate’s state-owned oil company, Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (Adnoc), according to bankers. The agreement sparked interest among market participants, who expect an increase in public-private partnerships in the Middle East energy industry, some of which are likely to be financed through traditional capital markets. Mariam Meskin reports.

South Korea’s Kookmin Bank has sold its maiden dollar-denominated Basel III compliant additional tier one bond, opting for a sustainability label to entice investors.

United Asia Finance, a personal loan provider in Hong Kong, is seeking a HK$1.6bn ($205m) borrowing in syndication.

Indian Railway Finance Corp has returned to the Samurai loan market for a $300m-equivalent deal.

Chinese local government financing vehicles (LGFVs) and property developers took advantage of positive sentiment after dovish comments from the Federal Reserve to flood the offshore market with bonds.

Former Crédit Agricole banker Christoph Paul has been appointed by Mizuho Securities.