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The Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka sealed a $2.4bn bond after shaking off investor concerns about the country’s political turmoil and ratings downgrades.

Two Turkish borrowers hit the market on Thursday, following in the wake of a Koç Holding trade earlier in the week and making it Turkey’s busiest week for deals in almost three years.

Emirates NBD has picked banks for a bond in the additional tier one format, aiming to be the second such deal from a Middle East bank this year.

The State of Qatar wowed the financial world on Wednesday with a $12bn three tranche deal that gathered a staggering $50bn of orders.

Two Turkish borrowers hit the market on Thursday, one returning to the market after a six year hiatus. Coming in the wake of a Koc Holding deal this week, the three deals make this Turkey’s busiest week for deals in almost three years.

BMW issued its first Panda bond on Wednesday, raising Rmb3bn ($447m) in a deal that one of the lead managers hailed as a "milestone” in opening up China’s domestic bond market to foreign issuers.

Qatar launched a long anticipated triple tranche dollar benchmark on Wednesday, hitting three parts of the curve for what may prove the largest emerging markets deal so far this year. The deal had gathered more than $35bn of orders before the US open.

Export-Import Bank of India got away with paying no new issue premium on its $500m return to dollar bonds, despite rising tensions between India and Pakistan.

Indonesian textile company Delta Merlin Dunia Textile made its debut in the dollar bond market on Tuesday. But first it had to overcome a huge range of value estimates from investors.

Banks outside the top five in the league tables, especially those operating in emerging market bonds, often sing a song that would tug at the heart strings if set against a solo violin. They claim that the league tables for CEEMEA deals often do not represent the banks that do the bulk of business in each region because the huge jumbo deals that occasionally spring up skew the results wildly in favour of the big firms. But the numbers show that claim is utter nonsense.

China Development Bank Financial Leasing Co (CDBL) has raised $700m from the bond market, leaning on anchor orders to squeeze a tight final price.

China real estate companies Zhenro Properties Group and China Evergrande Group started the new month with fresh dollar deals at the end of last week, marking Zhenro’s fourth trade of the year and Evergrande’s second.