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The Japan Bank for International Cooperation priced a 10 year benchmark while the Province of Ontario placed a three year bond on Wednesday. Both issuers impressed bankers away from the trades, coming as they did amid difficult conditions.

Nationwide Building Society has continued its funding surge into 2016, offering sterling investors a rare chance to pick up long dated senior unsecured paper from a UK lender.

Hotel Lotte could raise as much as $5bn from its IPO, expected as early as March, and land the title of the largest ever listing in South Korea in the process, according to market sources.

The Asia ex-Japan debt capital market was crowded with dollar issuers on January 13, with two investment grade bonds and two high yield notes opening in the morning.

Investors barely charged Mediobanca and Royal Bank of Canada on Tuesday for printing new five year senior bonds.

Kommuninvest and Oesterreichische Kontrollbank are set to bring deals at the short end of the dollar curve on Tuesday — by which time leads are hoping Monday’s turbulent swap spreads will have calmed.

Webhelp, the French call centre operator, was one of three companies who held bank meetings on Tuesday for leveraged loans. The €640m of first lien debt finances Webhelp’s acquisition by KKR from Charterhouse Capital Partners.

BBVA, BFCM and BPCE met with strong investor demand for euro senior unsecured deals on Monday, as peripheral and longer dated debt proved no deterrent to buyers.

Santander UK was set to print a solid sterling senior holdco debut on Friday, but different views of the appropriate spread between opco and holdco debt meant rival bankers couldn't agree on fair value for the deal.

South Korea's KEB Hana Bank is set to meet investors next week ahead of its first foray into the dollar bond market since its merger.

Hsin Chong Construction Group is meeting fixed income investors to gauge interest for what would be its second dollar bond.

As news of the UK and US investigation into SSA market trading practices broke, the SSA market split over whether the banks at the heart of the probe would lose primary business.