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  • Austria's 10 year syndication on Tuesday received a final order book that was almost twice the size of its previous record volume. Belgium was also in the market with its second OLO of the year, opting this time for a much longer maturity. Both deals were in keeping with eurozone sovereign supply this year, comfortably printing a combined €10bn from over €55bn of orders.
  • Austria, Belgium and Greece went out with mandates for syndications at various parts of the euro curve on Monday, just a day before a crunch vote in the UK Parliament on amendments to prime minster Theresa May’s Brexit plan. But bankers said concerns around Brexit are limited and are no roadblock to sovereign issuance.
  • Gilt investors in Scotland last Friday called on the UK Debt Management Office to reduce the proportion of long end issuance in both conventional and index-linked formats in its next financial year.
  • Egypt is revamping its capital markets presence, lining up a debut in the green bond market, a first deal in an Asian currency, and dollar and euro benchmarks all by the end of its fiscal year in June.
  • Bank of China’s Hong Kong-based debt syndicate head Sebastian Ha is leaving the firm next month.
  • The UK Debt Management Office has appointed a four bank syndicate to run the final syndication of its 2018/19 financial year.