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ASB Finance made only its second trip to the sterling senior unsecured market on Tuesday, targeting a popular three year floating rate transaction and nudging up senior supply in a week that could be over in terms of issuance by as early as Wednesday.

Export-Import Bank of Korea (Kexim) is making a return to the Samurai market with a three tranche offering.

Multipolar has reopened its $200m 9.75% 2018s with a $30m tap. The Indonesian retailer made the offering to meet new financing needs but was restricted to a small issuance by high yield debt covenants, according to a banker on the deal.

The European market will have to wait. After talk that Ceva Santé Animale, the French maker of veterinary vaccines, would raise the first euro-only covenant-lite leveraged loan since the financial crisis, it has now emerged that the €700m transaction will also include a dollar tranche.

Japan Bank for International Cooperation priced its first sterling benchmark in 17 years this week, and investors snapped up the opportunity to buy a rare name in sterling. JBIC, which will on-lend the proceeds to a UK rail project, could become a regular issuer in the currency as it is looking at financing more projects in the UK.

Grifols, the Spanish pharmaceuticals company, is due to launch $4.8bn of senior loans on Friday, making it the second borrower so far this year to rely at least in part on institutional lenders for a jumbo facility, after Ziggo’s €3.7bn deal late last month.

Gas Natural Fenosa, the Spanish gas and electricity company, issued on Thursday the first Spanish corporate bond of the year, and was swamped with a €5bn order book for the €500m no-grow issue.

Gas Natural Fenosa, the Spanish gas and electricity company, today issued the first Spanish corporate bond of the year, and was swamped with a €5bn orderbook for the €500m no-grow issue.

The European market will have to wait. After talk that Ceva Santé Animale, the French maker of veterinary vaccines, would raise the first euro-only covenant-lite leveraged loan since the financial crisis, it has now emerged that the €700m transaction will also include a dollar tranche.

Demand for dollar deals from a pair of German issuers surpassed expectations this week, as Erste Abwicklungsanstalt followed a heavily oversubscribed print from KfW with its debut benchmark in the currency — and had to increase the size in the face of strong demand.

Guarantor: Federal Republic of Germany

Westpac Banking Corp is set to print its first benchmark Samurai transaction in almost two years as Japan’s central bank ploughs on with the monetary easing policy that has made yields on foreign banks’ bonds more attractive to domestic buyers.