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Publicis, the French advertising firm, has signed a $1.6bn loan with maturities of 2018, 2019 and 2020 and a margin of 60bp.

Smurfit Kappa Group, the Irish packaging group, priced a €250m 10 year high yield bond on Wednesday evening that found solid demand, after announcing higher earnings and revenue for 2014.

The latest of several Chinese issuers to tap the European bond market, China State Shipbuilding Corp priced its debut bond in the currency, a €500m three year issue, on Wednesday.

Telecity, the UK data connectivity provider, has revealed a £600m refinancing loan as part of its results announcement to shareholders this year.

Export Import Bank of Korea (Kexim) sold its second offshore renminbi bond in as many weeks, raising Rmb1bn ($162m). This time, the sophisticated Korean issuer took the unique approach of reaching out to both onshore Taiwan investors and offshore Reg S investors, issuing what became the first CNH public bond transaction out of Korea dual listed in Taiwan and Singapore.

State Bank of India is expected to hit the market in March for its jumbo Rp150bn ($2.4bn) equity raising, in what would be yet another chunky deal for the country’s ECM market.

High yield investors grabbed bonds from lift component maker Wittur and Swiss telco Sunrise Communications on Tuesday, even after absorbing GTech’s €4.4bn-equivalent offer over the previous 24 hours.

Statoil, the Norwegian oil and gas company, issued €3.75bn of bonds today, after falling oil prices contributed to a 36% drop in the company’s third quarter earnings. It is the biggest euro investment grade bond issue this year - though both Altice and GTech have issued bigger high yield financings, with parts of the deals placed in dollars.

The acquisition of Las Vegas-based International Gaming Technology by the Italian gambling technology company GTech took a step ahead on Tuesday as GTech raised €4.4bn in euros and dollars, in the second biggest European high yield deal so far this year.

BBVA is looking to cut the cost of raising additional tier one capital on its third such transaction in two years, announcing initial price thoughts of high-6% area for a perpetual non-call five year trade in euros, compared to the 7% it paid to sell a euro perp non-call five year in February 2014.

Export Import Bank of Korea (Kexim) is looking to tap the Formosa bond market for the second time in less than 10 days, opening books to a offshore renminbi-denominated three year transaction on February 10.

German lift components producer Wittur has widened pricing on the loan portion of its €420m debt raising, while increasing the high yield bond part of the package.