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Ireland’s Keywords Studios, which provides technical services for the computer games industry, has signed a €75m three year revolving credit facility with a trio of UK banks. It is ramping up its bank debt amid a period of growth.

Slovakia revised pricing downwards on its rare 50 year bond on Tuesday morning, after taking books of over €5.3bn with the first trade from the central and eastern Europe region for nearly two weeks.

The Slovak Republic is exploring the possibility of issuing a rare 50 year euro-denominated bond as markets stabilise after a tough week.

Chinese education firm Puxin's $166m New York Stock Exchange IPO was covered by demand from Asian investors alone on the first day of bookbuilding.

Indiabulls Housing Finance has made a quick return to the loan syndications market for a $200m borrowing.

US corporate bond bankers are hoping for a rebound in supply in June, after the high grade new issue market limped to the end of May.

BC Partners has completed the first selldown of shares in Sabre Insurance, the UK specialist insurer, since its £287m flotation on the London Stock Exchange in December.

State Bank of India has launched a new $750m three year borrowing into general syndication, about two months after mandating banks to run the transaction.

Shares in Capita, the UK outsourcing company, rose 3.2% on Friday after it concluded its £702m rights issue, intended to put the company on a sound financial footing after a series of profit warnings over the past year.

The political manoeuvrings in Italy’s path to being governed — as well as poor eurozone economic data — played havoc with rates this week, leading to SSA deals either paying higher new issue concessions, or falling short of subscription. More volatility could come, after the country’s president approved the likely coalition partners’ choice of prime minister but held back from appointing a eurosceptic economist to take charge of the country’s economy. Craig McGlashan reports.

The Netherlands Development Finance Company (FMO) has added another product to its local currency offering after selling its first ever note linked to the Tanzanian shilling. The deal came in the same week that World Bank debuted in Peruvian soles.

Vodafone was welcomed with open arms in the US as it printed the biggest dollar bond in its history, executing a quick fire acquisition financing.