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Numericable completed its €4.7bn capital increase this week, bringing to an end the financing for the French cable operator’s acquisition of SFR.

NTPC launched bookbuilding for a ten year dollar bond on November 19 in its first outing for more than two years. The power company is hoping to capitalise on its status an Indian quasi-sovereign in a market that a market that is overrun by supply from China.

Barclays has named two new heads for its Asia Pacific equities franchise, as the bank focuses investment in areas like cash execution, ETC and programme ETF trading and electronic equities trading.

Informa, the UK business-to-business publishing and events group, launched a cash box placing on Tuesday morning, hoping to raise about £275m to fully fund an acquisition of Hanley Wood Exhibitions, a US events business, which was announced simultaneously. Informa got the deal done, but only raised £207m after some top shareholders said they preferred a smaller deal.

Deutsche Bank and Barclays on Tuesday evening launched a block trade of a 10.09% stake worth £83m in Crest Nicholson, the UK housebuilder.

A fire in its largest factory in Spain has led meat processor Campofrio to abandon plans to issue a bond to refinance senior unsecured notes maturing in 2016.

Fomento de Construcciones y Contratas, the Spanish building and environmental services company, is close to reaching agreement with its creditors on a debt restructuring, according to a spokesman for the company.

China Development Bank’s financing arm CDB Leasing is set to kick off a series of meetings with investors starting this week in Asia and Europe for a senior unsecured dollar bond issue.

Axis Bank this week made a successful return to the bond market after more than two years away. While the borrower was not in need of funds it took advantage of tightening spreads to price through its rivals' curves, although US participation in the 144A trade was limited.

British Sky Broadcasting, the UK pay TV company, priced €850m and £750m of listed bonds on Monday over three maturities to fund its acquisition of Sky Deutschland. The deal was no blowout — one tranche was priced at the level of initial price thoughts, the others only 5bp tighter — but with an additional €400m from a private placement on the same day, Sky says it has now completed the financing for its acquisitions.

Publicis Groupe's $3.5bn loan for its acquisition of Sapient, the marketing and consulting company, is near closing, according to a banker working on the deal. A syndicate of relationship banks has been invited.

Health Care Reit, the Ohio-based real estate investment trust, issued a £500m 20 year bond on Friday October 14. It is the longest sterling bond to be issued by a company other than a housing association since the Wellcome Trust's 45 year deal in May.