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German styrenics supplier Styrolution held a London bank meeting on Tuesday for a €1.05bn-equivalent five year term loan ‘B’, which marks the company’s return to the market after pulling a larger facility in the summer.

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Unibail-Rodamco, the French property company, achieved tight pricing on its latest eight year euro issue thanks to strong demand from across continental Europe.

Bertelsmann, the German media group, made a rare return to the bond market on Wednesday with a new 10 year benchmark.

As syndicated loan volumes in central and eastern Europe dwindled in the first nine months of the year, hit by conflict in Ukraine and sanctions on Russian banks and energy companies, Standard Chartered has emerged at the top of the bookrunner league tables.

German styrenics supplier Styrolution held a London bank meeting on Tuesday for a €1.05bn-equivalent five year term loan ‘B’, which marks the company’s return to the market after pulling a larger facility during summer.

Abbey National returned to the sterling market in senior for the first time since 2010, printing a long-dated deal that was snapped up by investors amid a dearth of senior supply.

Mobile phone maker Xiaomi’s $1bn dual tranche loan has netted commitments from seven lenders that made it in time for the loan’s early bird deadline in general. These banks will earn an early bird fee of 15bp for getting commitments in by October 6.

Korea Exchange Bank (KEB) is looking to become the third Korean lender to tap the dollar market with a tier two bond, mandating four banks to handle the transaction.

Four issuers launched covered bonds from Germany, Sweden, Norway and Austria this week. The transactions were all well subscribed and priced tightly but the greatest degree of price tension was seen in deals that are expected to be eligible for the European Central Bank’s purchase programme.

European credit markets had a nasty turn today, which salespeople and analysts blamed on news that Bill Gross, the so-called “Bond King’”, had decided to leave Pimco, the world’s biggest bond investor – though perhaps just because they wanted something to blame. Yet Babcock International, the UK engineering services group, still managed to issue a €550m bond – its first in the European market.

SIG, a Sheffield-based specialist building products company, has refinanced a £250m revolving credit facility that was due to mature in May 2015.