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On Friday Nestlé extended by a year €5bn five year revolving credit facility it had signed in October 2013. The Swiss foods producer also replaced a €5bn-equivalent short term facility with a new facility of €6bn.

Reliance Jio Infocomm’s $1.5bn dual tranche loan that opened in September has received around $280m in commitments from five lenders during general syndication. At least five more banks are processing approvals for the loan and the deadline for commitments has been extended to November 24 to allow them to come in.

Yildiz joined the glut of Turkish food companies looking for loans this week, as it eyed as much as £900m to back its £2.1bn acquisition of Jaffa Cake maker United Biscuits. The loan adds to Ülker Biscüvi and Yıldız subsidiary Ak Gıda, which were set to close conventional and Islamic deals this week.

SEB got the additional tier one market back on to a strong footing on Thursday, selling the first AT1 from a European bank for almost two months to a rapturous reception. National Australia Bank was also active in the subordinated market, overcoming concerns over a novel structure to sell the first Basel III-compliant tier two deal from an Australian issuer in euros.

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Dutch paint and chemicals company AkzoNobel beat the rush to the euro market, which has been busy this week, by bringing a rare €500m 10 year bond last Friday.

Alliance Boots’ £12bn leveraged buyout in 2007 was a titanic and totemic deal, which symbolised the height of the pre-crisis LBO wave. This week, the financing was done that will remove the UK pharmacy group’s name from the corporate landscape, merging it with US chain Walgreens into WBA — Walgreens Boots Alliance.

Abengoa Yield, the contracted asset holding company controlled by Abengoa, the Spanish renewable energy company, has launched its first bond since it was listed on Nasdaq in June.

UK challenger bank Virgin Money has received enough demand from investors to list in London next week, only a day after the start of bookbuilding.

ICBC NY sneaked a triple tranche dollar bond into the market on Wednesday while most attention was concentrating on well flagged issues from Bank of China and China Construction Bank. ICBC took a hefty $2.25bn with the US targeted senior trade, proving that global appetite for Chinese bank debt is still unsated.

Huaneng Power International raised HK$3.14bn ($405m) on November 5 through a private placement of shares to nine investors. While wall-crossing efforts went on for just 24 hours, the recent rally in the company’s share price meant some of the investors had to be walked up to the final pricing.

The Islamic Republic of Pakistan is set to raise at least Rp69.7bn ($678m) from the sale of some of its holding in Oil & Gas Development Corp (OGDCL), having set the floor price for the offering at Rp216 a share.