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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.

In the wake of the news that four traders at different banks were under investigation by US and UK authorities over possible sharing of client flow information, senior bankers were quick to blame the structures of the market, and pressure from issuers focused on turnover statistics, for making it possible.

Supranational and agency borrowers have long anticipated a wave of demand from American investors as US government sponsored enterprise issuance dwindles. But this week there were concrete signs that the dollar bond market has shaken off the problems that prevented the big switch. Craig McGlashan reports.

Public sector borrowers enjoyed a storming sterling market this week and, with many of the supporting factors still in place, SSA bankers are confident that more deals will follow.

Investigators are finally baring their teeth at the bond markets, after dozens of other post-crisis scandals, with a probe into the supranational and agency market that has engulfed four banks.

The Inter-American Development Bank raised $3bn on Thursday amid a buoyant dollar market for public sector borrowers at the start of 2016.

The sterling market enjoyed a second record breaking day in a row on Wednesday as FMS Wertmanagement printed its largest ever deal in the currency — and sterling investors were impatient for an upcoming World Bank deal.