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Unédic was almost three times covered for a 10 year bond on Thursday, with the leads pointing to the relative value of the trade and the quality of name as the factors behind its success against a difficult market backdrop.

On-looking SSA bankers applauded the European Stability Mechanism’s trade on Tuesday, which managed to get over the line with minimal new issue premium despite sharp moves in the rates market caused by the spread of the Covid-19 coronavirus.

Tradition’s rates trading platform, Trad-X, has signed up Commerzbank and DekaBank to its new dealer-to-client central limit order book (Clob) and has 12 more firms in the pipeline.

Relx Finance, the funding arm of UK specialist publisher Relx, has hired banks to arrange a roadshow for a triple tranche bond sale, with maturities out as far as 12 years.

Fosun International has returned to the offshore loan market for a $650m refinancing that is being run by a large banking group at the top.

Luxemboug's Clearstream Banking has refinanced its $3bn short term letter of credit facility, making the deal for the branch of the international central securities depository the second biggest investment grade syndicated loan in Europe so far this year, according to Dealogic.

Atos has sold most of its remaining shares in Wordline, the French payments company, via an accelerated bookbuild.

The Republic of Poland has printed €1.5bn 0% 2025s on Monday, selling the deal at 100.512 to give the first ever negative yield in euros — minus 0.102% — from any global EM issuer.

The Republic of Finland and the State of North Rhine Westphalia hired banks on Monday to prepare syndicated bonds at the long end of the euro curve. Yields of eurozone haven assets remain compressed while fears of the coronavirus outbreak intensify.

The Republic of Poland pulled in €6bn of orders for a five year benchmark bond on Monday, with the issue four times covered as coronavirus fear still ripped financial markets.

Essity, the hygiene and health products company spun off by Sweden's SCA in 2017, slipped into the bond market with a €300m no-grow 10 year issue on Tuesday. The issuer was estimated to have paid a low single digit new issue premium.

Telefonica, the Spanish telecommunications company, issued senior and hybrid bonds in euros on Monday. While it picked a horrendous day for markets for its offer, Telefonica still managed to pay small or negative price concessions relative to its secondary curve.