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KfW and Ireland brought euro deals on Wednesday at the very top end of size expectations, alleviating a little of the pressure on what is set to be an extremely busy year in the currency. The trades came the same day as Municipality Finance mandated for a euro benchmark and a request for proposals came from the European Financial Stability Facility.

India’s two main stock exchanges are set to start 2017 on a positive note, with Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) likely to launch a $200m deal this month and National Stock Exchange (NSE) bringing a jumbo $1bn IPO in the second quarter.

Volvo Cars, the Swedish car company owned by Zhejiang Geely Holding of China, has raised Skr5bn ($530m) in a private placement of preference shares, which might be converted to listed shares if Volvo completes an IPO.

Australian casino tycoon James Packer sold his stake in Melco Crown Entertainment, his Asian joint venture with Hong Kong magnate Stanley Ho, in a $669.9m overnight bookbuild on Thursday.

Aeropuertos Argentina 2000, the Argentine airport operator, is looking to return to bond markets in 2017 with a 10 year deal of up to $400m.

Meitu, creator of the popular Chinese selfie editing app, failed to live up to its promise when the stock debuted on Thursday in Hong Kong, shedding as much as 2%.

CriteriaCaixa Holding, the unlisted holding company, sold another slice of CaixaBank in a €315m block trade on Tuesday night that took it a step closer to its long term goal of holding just 40% of the Barcelona-based lender.

Tata Sons has forked out Rp24.3bn ($359.8m) for a block of shares in Tata Motors through a reverse bookbuild process, the first of its kind in India.

Chinese selfie app maker Meitu wrapped up its IPO at the bottom of guidance last week, raising HK$4.9bn ($631.5m) in fresh funds.

UniCredit turned to the equity-linked bond market on Thursday to dispose of its last 7.4% stake in Bank Pekao, after agreeing to sell 32.8% of the Polish lender to insurance company Powszechny Zakład Ubezpieczeń and the Polish Development Fund, for Z10.6bn (€2.4bn).

Business travel group Carlson is running a roadshow for what could be the European high yield market's last deal of the year as it aims to refinance its debt with a three tranche bond.

Infrastructure investment trust (InvIT) India Grid Trust has taken its first step towards going public, submitting a draft red herring prospectus on December 2.