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Unitymedia, the German cable operator, this week priced €420m of senior secured 10 year notes to yield 4.625%, the wide end of price talk.

Oil services company Fugro on Thursday cut the size of its credit facilities from €775m to €500m, with one bank dropping from out of the lending group.

Russian steel company Evraz has set the yield on a long five year benchmark at 8.25% area, a level that bankers away from the deal said was roughly in line with where he calculated fair value for the bond.

Inner Mongolia-based China Shengmu Organic Milk is testing appetite in the syndicated loan market for a $120m three year facility and is offering banks an attractive yield of more than 300bp.

Unitymedia, one of Germany’s largest cable operators, launched a €420m senior secured high yield bond today.

African Development Bank brought in more than $600m of orders for a no-grow $500m December 2018 global green bond on Wednesday, a deal that bankers involved felt might not have worked as well without the socially responsible investment tag.

Corporate bond bankers are busy, for this time of year. While they are usually up for doing deals, it is clear investors, too, are in no hurry to close their books for the year, but are keen to buy paper, despite the let-down of the European Central Bank’s lukewarm QE boost last week.

Latvia has provided the only point of CEEMEA new issue activity this week so far, though the sovereign is shifting out of the emerging market universe.

India’s Dewan Housing Finance held a non-deal roadshow in Taipei on December 9 just a few weeks after sealing an offshore dollar loan.

Corporate treasurers across Europe will be thanking Daimler today, as the German car maker took the lead on Tuesday and showed that the bond market is wide open for deals.

India’s Reliance Industries has selected a group of 13 lenders for a $1bn loan that will refinance a borrowing raised in 2010.

The African Development Bank is set to bring a green bond as the United Nations Conference on Climate Change in Paris (COP21) nears its end.