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Four Chinese borrowers hit the dollar bond market on Tuesday, raising $745m between them.

CNP Assurances ventured out with a rare tier three deal on Tuesday, becoming only the second issuer this year to tap the format in euros.

The UK’s SSE Renewables and Norway’s Equinor, two energy companies, have signed what lenders say is the largest ever offshore wind project financing, a £5.5bn package for a wind farm off the UK coast.

French hotels group Accor this week became the latest issuer to tap the convertible bond market for financing in the wake of the rally in value stocks following positive Covid vaccine news in early November.

Mercuria and Gunvor, the Swiss commodity and energy trading firms, have signed credit facilities for their US businesses, with both companies adding more banks to the deals.

Natixis has named a new head of debt capital markets for Asia Pacific, following Kenneth Lee's move from the bank to Mizuho earlier this year.

Two public sector borrowers hit the euro bond market on Wednesday, raising what might well be the final benchmark funding of 2020.

Shopping mall operator Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield priced a €2bn dual tranche bond from €7.2bn of demand on Wednesday, after fixed income investors were left unfazed by its shareholders blocking a rights issue earlier this month.

Mercuria, the Swiss commodity trading firm, has signed a $1.7bn credit facility for its US business, with the company reducing the size of the deal being refinanced but continuing the trend of trading firms of adding to their US banking groups.

The allocation of Indonesian instant noodle maker Indofood CBP Sukses Makmur’s $2.05bn-equivalent acquisition loan has been finalised, after the lead banks closed the syndication earlier this month.

CNH Industrial, the US-Italian agricultural and construction machinery maker, cruised through the bond market on Tuesday, as bond bankers puzzled over whether the Thanksgiving holiday in the US on Thursday means this will be a short week for issuance.

Gunvor, the Swiss energy trader, has signed a $1.1bn credit facility through its US arm a week after completing a similarly sized deal for its European operations, with five new lenders joining the annual US refinancing.