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Deutsche Bank, Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan are joint lead arrangers and bookrunners for a bridge loan of up to £12.2bn ($15.18bn) which 21st Century Fox will use to buy the remaining shares in Sky it does not own.

South American development bank Corporación Andina de Fomento (CAF) has elected Luis Carranza Ugarte, the former Peruvian finance minister, as executive president.

Aeropuertos Argentina 2000, the Argentine airport operator, is looking to return to bond markets in 2017 with a 10 year deal of up to $400m.

Mizuho has hired three technology bankers to join its San Francisco office, part of the firm's new tech operation, launched earlier this year

BlackRock has been awarded the first Renminbi Qualified Institutional Investor (RQFII) licence in the US this week providing further momentum to America's push in RMB internationalisation.

Intercontinental Exchange has obtained approval from the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) for its ICE Clear US business to be recognised as a third country central counterparty under the European Markets Infrastructure Regulation (EMIR).

Fitch assigned a negative outlook to Latin America’s best-rated sovereign, Chile, on Tuesday as years of low growth finally catch up with the region’s most stable credits.

Bats Europe is to add several benchmark indices spanning French, German, Italian and Swiss markets and expects these to support derivatives products in the future.

Tradeweb Markets, the New York-headquartered fixed income, derivatives and exchange trader fund marketplace provider, has reported a big rise in credit volume for November in both the US and overseas.

Fitch said on Tuesday that there would be “no respite” for Latin American corporates in 2017 after record high defaults this year, although not all bond investors share the rating agency’s gloom.

US based-Novelis, part of Indian company Aditya Birla Group, has lined up a syndicate of 10 lenders to arrange an Asia loan that refinances a $1.8bn US term loan B from last year.

The Chicago Mercantile Exchange has appointed a president for clearing and post trade services, a newly created title at the firm.