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SKF, the Swedish ball bearing maker, won a €2.2bn order book on Tuesday for a €500m no-grow bond, issued to partly fund a tender offer for older notes.

Scandic Hotels, the Nordic hotel operator that started taking orders for its IPO on November 17, has released a covered message to investors, a lead banker said on Wednesday.

Dometic, the Swedish maker of refrigerators and cookers for camper vans, traded up 15.42% on its first day as a public company on Wednesday, a strong aftermarket performance that recalled other Scandinavian IPOs this year.

SKF, the Swedish ball bearing maker, won a €2.2bn order book today (Tuesday) for a €500m no-grow bond, issued to partly fund a tender offer for older notes.

ING Bank was able to price its debut euro green bond inside its regular senior curve on Tuesday, with bankers estimating a very slim premium for the well subscribed trade.

Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken and ANZ took advantage of strong funding conditions in dollars this week, despite a drop in demand for floaters.

Singapore-based BW Pacific has opened books for a listing on the Oslo Stock Exchange, as the tanker company looks to raise as much as Nkr2.4bn ($283m) from its IPO.

Dometic, the Swedish manufacturer of refrigerators and cookers for camper vans, said on Monday that it aimed to raise Skr4.6bn ($540m) of primary proceeds from an initial public offering in Stockholm.

A steady start to the week in the European corporate bond primary market had clicked into gear by Thursday, as corporate issuers emerged at pace from earnings blackouts.

Three issuers launched covered bond benchmarks in euros this week, down from nine in the previous week, as borrowers anticipated an improvement in market conditions and lower new issue concessions.

Nordic companies are showing a strong willingness to adopt the renminbi for payments which is a creating an opportunity for Sweden’s SEB Paula da Silva, head of transaction services at SEB, told GlobalRMB at the recent Sibos conference held in Singapore.

Skandiabanken, the Norwegian online bank, narrowed the price range of its initial public offering on Tuesday, having achieved investor coverage at that level.