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A multi-currency loan for Sino Horizon Holdings has been launched into syndication via one bank. But as the facility size is relatively small, not all lenders will be able to get a piece of the deal.

BOC Aviation started gauging investor appetite this week for its $2bn IPO in Hong Kong, with books set to open in mid-May.

Guatemala will undertake a second day of investor calls on Thursday ahead of what is likely to be the its first international bond since February 2013.

The recent run of good news on IPOs was broken on Wednesday when Telepizza made a dire debut on Bolsa Madrid after its €550m flotation, priced on Tuesday.

Belgium is set to bring a private dabbling in ultra-long debt issuance into the public sphere, as it mandated on Wednesday for a debut 50 year euro benchmark a week after placing its second 100 year medium term note.

Fantasia Holdings Group sold the first high yield offshore renminbi bond since last summer, pricing a Rmb600m ($92.4m) three year on Tuesday. Although market participants welcomed new activity in the moribund dim sum market, the outlook for more issuance is bleak.

Mexican cement company Cemex is looking to buy back up to $400m of senior secured bonds, the latest exercise in liability management.

Grupo Sura, the owner of the largest pension fund in Latin America and the largest bank in Colombia, raised $550m of 10 year senior unsecured bonds on Tuesday as Latin American high grade corporates finally took advantage of a receptive market.

The European Stability Mechanism rode the crest of a wave of demand for duration on Tuesday to complete its remaining funding needs for the second quarter, as Unédic looked to hit a shorter maturity.

Mexican refrigerated food company Sigma Alimentos sold the first dollar denominated high grade private sector bond from Latin America this year on Monday, taking advantage of low corporate supply to tighten pricing.

Fantasia Holdings Group launched a three year dim sum this morning in a deal that reopens the high yield offshore RMB bond market for Chinese issuers for the first time since August.

Bank of China Luxembourg has signed its debut syndicated loan after ICBC’s London subsidiary signed a $1bn deal last year.