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Italian corporate issuers have dominated bond issuance in recent weeks but Wednesday brought a pair from Iberia, as two energy suppliers took advantage of the market's hot conditions.

Dollar corporate bond supply kicked off November on a quiet note after the the Federal Reserve’s two day meeting kept borrowers on the sidelines following a frantic start to the week when spreads continued to tighten and cash poured into the high-grade market.

Corporate borrowers dashed to print as investment grade spreads maintained their record levels ahead of a sell-off in US Treasuries, as speculation grew that US president Donald Trump would appoint a policy hawk to replace Janet Yellen as Fed chief.

Three European agencies and a Washington supranational tapped 10 year Australian dollar bonds this week, as the demand for long end Kangaroo paper remains healthy.

RBC Capital Markets has hired a former Nomura banker to run its M&A business in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.

Greencoat UK Wind, the wind farm operator managed by Greencoat Capital, has raised £340m ($447.59m) to invest in new assets, after a fully marketed share sale on the London Stock Exchange.

Catalyst Housing, a UK social housing association based in Ealing, west London, made an impressive debut in the bond market this week, garnering £350m of demand for a £150m deal and pricing inside Notting Hill Housing Trust, its closest comparable.

KfW tapped its July 2020 Australian dollar green bond for A$200m ($156.9m) on Wednesday, pricing well inside its existing Kangaroo curve — an illustration of the developing maturity of green markets down under.

Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank is set to come to market for a potential triple tranche kangaroo bond on Friday, following a deal from Emirates NBD that, according to a banker at one of ADCB’s leads, showed the market was still accessible to Middle Eastern borrowers.

Yet another new London IPO was unveiled on Thursday, when ContourGlobal, the emerging markets-focused power generation company, said it would raise $400m to finance growth and cut debt, by selling new shares to institutional investors.

Walt Disney joined the swell of blue chips entering the Maple market, selling C$1.25bn ($1bn) of seven year notes on Wednesday. Maple bonds, a suburb of niche currency markets for years, is becoming a hotbed for blue chips in search of diversification, writes Silas Brown.

Export Development Canada (EDC) sold a five year sterling floater on Thursday, raising £750m with its largest deal ever in the currency and, in an unusual development for the sterling market, pulled in its spread by 2bp. The borrower paid up over its dollar curve but was, according to one of the leads, happy to do so to maintain a presence in sterling.