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Alok Industries has finally signed its $475m export performance bank guarantee-backed (EPBG) loan on June 30 with a total of eight banks committing to the transaction.

Banca Sistema, an Italian bank that specialises in factoring government invoices, completed its IPO in Milan on Monday, raising €146m and achieving a market capitalisation of €302m, despite being buffeted by market anxiety about the Greek debt crisis.

UK gambling technology company Playtech has secured a €200m revolving credit facility to acquire online forex trading platform Ava Trade for $105m.

A fixed income salesperson at Barclays Capital with a focus on Swiss clients is leaving the bank and said to be heading to Deutsche Bank in London.

Aberdeen Asset Management has hired the former head of European convertible bonds and equity derivatives research as a convertibles investment manager.

Fiat Chrysler Automobiles has completed syndication of a €5bn revolving credit facility, in the company's first loan refinancing since Fiat Group Automobiles merged with Chrysler last year.

Statoil, the Norwegian oil and gas company, has signed a $5bn revolving credit facility which received strong demand from banks, despite the company's sizeable first quarter loss.

Korea Gas Corp (KoGas) mandated six banks as the company gears up for a benchmark sized return to the dollar bond market next month.

Ufinet, the telecoms unit of Gas Natural Fenosa (formerly called GNF Telecom), has pulled a repricing of its €295m leveraged loan, in a sign that the market's repricing wave may be breaking.

Heinz’s jumbo bond backing its acquisition of US foods group Kraft topped off the dollar market’s best ever quarter and half-year for high-grade corporate issuance.

Heinz rounded out an impressive debt financing exercise on Wednesday for its merger with Kraft, adding modestly sized euro and sterling bonds to the $10bn seven tranche dollar issue it had done on Tuesday.

Korea National Oil Corp (KNOC) has mandated six banks to prepare for the first outing to the offshore debt market this year. Although nothing has been decided on the upcoming notes, the borrower is expected to return before November 2015, when its existing bond comes up for maturity.