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CNH Industrial has sold its first bond since the merger of Fiat Industrial and CNH Global, raising €1bn and attracting a €3.5bn book from over 280 accounts before reconciliation.

Ceva Logistics, the Dutch freight business owned by Apollo Management, wants to refinance its debt with new bonds and loans.

Private placement investors eager for a yield pick-up are hunting deals from African Bank and similar names, according to medium term note bankers. Interest has increased in recent weeks despite emerging market volatility.

Bank of Ireland returned to the covered bond market on Tuesday to issue its fifth deal since November 2012, when it returned after the Irish sovereign debt crisis. The transaction was well oversubscribed with plenty of orders, but less spectacularly so than on previous issues.

Double-A borrowers dominated FIG issuance in Swiss francs this week, with a bevy of well respected names making welcome returns to the currency. Royal Bank of Canada, Rabobank and Nordea were all able to surpass their minimum targets with deals in the belly of the curve.

Matomy, a digital marketing firm based in Israel, launched a London IPO on Monday, giving encouragement to the UK's aim to bring more technology listings to the country.

The additional tier one debt market got its first taste of investor pullback as KBC Group’s €1.43bn perpetual non-call five year transaction traded wider than it where it was priced on Thursday morning.

Virgin Media, the UK cable TV, mobile and fixed line telephone and internet group, has announced its first bond issue since the financing for its takeover by US cable investment group Liberty Global in February 2013.

ISS stock traded up on its first day on the Copenhagen stock exchange on Thursday, after the business services firm completed the largest Danish IPO since 2010 with a Dkr81.bn ($1.5bn) offering.

Spanish Reit Hispania Activos Inmobiliarios has raised €500m through an IPO that it will complete on Friday, taking the total raised from Spanish real estate IPOs to almost €1bn this month.

Indian telecoms company Bharti Airtel sold its debut Swiss franc deal on Thursday morning, a six year note. Strong demand allowed the issuer to sell the largest ever Swiss franc deal from the country.

Market softening on continuing concerns over the Asian economy isn’t having any apparent effect on KBC Group’s euro additional tier one deal, which was launched on Wednesday morning by lead managers Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan, KBC Bank, Morgan Stanley and UBS. The deal is looking set to price at the tightest coupon level for an AT1 deal so far, despite other recent names trading weaker on the secondary market on Wednesday.