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TDF Infrastructure, the French broadcasting infrastructure operator, gave investors something to get their teeth into on Thursday, bringing a €600m bond to a recovering but uneasy corporate bond market.

Lloyds and Rabobank have been successful with short dated floaters this week and, while investors remain cautious, market tone is gradually improving.

Futures markets are discounting the likelihood of a rate hike by the US Federal Reserve despite Chair Janet Yellen’s guidance, with traders playing wait-and-see along the yield curve.

Schaeffler successfully priced its Frankfurt IPO on Thursday. But the final size of the deal left the owners of the German ball bearing maker with far more shares than they had originally hoped.

The European Union reopened its 1.375% October 2029s to raise just over €1bn on Thursday and will use most of the proceeds to refinance a maturing loan for Ireland.

World Bank broke new ground on Wednesday with the issue of the first bonds designed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by providing guaranteed carbon credit prices to project managers.

Eastern Europe is generally viewed by credit investors as one of the safer segments of the increasingly shaky emerging markets asset class. But the aggressive presence of Russia poses risks, as its neighbours know all too well.

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Circle Housing, a UK-based housing association, has sold its inaugural private placement, and in the process taken on its first floating rate debt.

Financial services firm Hargreaves Lansdown has received as many as 120,000 registrations of interest in the planned public sale of Lloyds Bank shares by the UK government.

Abu Dhabi’s Union National Bank (UNB) signed its latest $750m loan in the nick of time, ahead of a widening margins for Middle Eastern loans, bankers say.