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Finnvera looks set to join the euro benchmark pipeline for the rest of the year after hiring banks to hold investor calls on Monday. The European Financial Stability Facility is set to bring a deal this week after circulating requests for proposals last week, while OeBB-Infrastruktur was first out of the blocks in euros on Monday.

Books for Poland coal firm, Kompany Weglowa’s bond closed on Friday but with no update as yet on pricing, bankers away from the deal have become curious as to whether the deal has been postponed. But the bond is still live, said a syndicate official on the note.

On Friday Nestlé extended by a year €5bn five year revolving credit facility it had signed in October 2013. The Swiss foods producer also replaced a €5bn-equivalent short term facility with a new facility of €6bn.

Barclays may be in the middle of restructuring its global investment banking operations and cutting 7,000 jobs across the globe, but that has not prevented it from making five senior hires for newly created positions across DCM, FIG and M&A, it said on November 7.

Reliance Jio Infocomm’s $1.5bn dual tranche loan that opened in September has received around $280m in commitments from five lenders during general syndication. At least five more banks are processing approvals for the loan and the deadline for commitments has been extended to November 24 to allow them to come in.

Council of Europe crowned a week of tightly priced deals from high quality issuers in dollars with the first benchmark to reach the five year point of the curve since the dollar market was engulfed in volatility in mid-October. Sweden kicked off proceedings with an oversubscribed three year that came at the deepest level through mid-swaps for a deal of that tenor all year.

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The end of the year could take on a supranational flavour in euros as a pair of issuers mull deals. The European Financial Stability Facility is expected to bring a deal in its next window — next week — while the European Union told GlobalCapital this week it could return to the capital markets to pick up funding for Ukraine.

RAC, the UK car recovery breakdown firm, has allocated its £1.25bn refinancing and recapitalisation loan after flexing the facility’s original issue discount in investors' favour.

The European Central Bank's covered bond purchase programme (CBPP3) turned relative value upside down this week, with a French deal pricing inside a similar Swedish offering, among a crop of four new issues.

Ford Credit Europe Bank, the American car maker’s UK-based European financing vehicle, came to the sterling unsecured bond market for the second time this year to issue a £400m five year on Thursday.

Mubadala GE Capital priced its $500m five year bond on Wednesday from a book of $1.3bn, having won large demand from accounts in North America looking for exposure to GE.