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Kloeckner Pentaplast, the German plastic film maker, has accelerated syndication on its €831m-equivalent loan in euros and dollars, designed to refinance debt and pay its shareholders a dividend.

Busy Bee, the UK nursery and early education provider for under-fives, has held a bank meeting this morning to market its £210m term loan ‘B’.

Changing investor attitudes towards contractual point of non-viability allowed Commonwealth Bank of Australia to draw a solid order book for a euro tier two deal on Wednesday.

Moroccan fertilizer company OCP has released initial price guidance of 4.875% area for a 10.5 year dollar benchmark, offering around a 12.5bp new issue premium for the deal.

Barclays has snapped up a hybrid structuring banker from Crédit Agricole.

RWE, the German electricity and gas company, issued €1.25bn of hybrid bonds on Tuesday, which are expected to partly replace its €1.75bn hybrid issued in 2010 and to be callable in September.

The FIG market could be set for a spate of issuance from the eurozone’s periphery in the coming weeks, with bankers tipping other financial institutions to follow Spanish pair CaixaBank and Ibercaja into the primary market.

Petróleos Mexicanos has tightened price guidance for its dual tranche euro bond as combined books for the seven and 10 year deals hit €5.25bn.

Pennsylvania’s Trinseo, a plastics manufacturer, wants to issue $750m of unsecured notes, including a euro tranche, to repay its 8.75% bond sold in 2013.

Anheuser-Busch InBev, the Belgian-US brewer, showed how well Europe’s corporate bond market has recovered since Easter — and the apparent change in the market’s depth in the past year — by issuing a €3bn bond on Monday that found very strong demand.

Japan Finance Organisation for Municipalities is set to add to a recent splurge of seven year dollar issuance on Tuesday, after mandating banks for a RegS deal on Monday.

ZF Friedrichshafen is preparing to launch its long-awaited first public bond, to refinance its acquisition of TRW Holding of the US last year.