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South African media group Naspers has finished amending and extending a $2.25bn five year loan and has added another $250m to the deal size, taking it to $2.5bn.

Alpha Bank has launched on November 11 a share sale to raise €1.66bn, as part of its €2.74bn capital strengthening plan, to address capital weakness discovered in recent EU stress tests.

Citi has formed a European cross border DCM team focused on bringing international issuers outside EMEA into European debt capital markets. The move represents a bet on the continued flow of reverse Yankee business.

Anheuser-Busch InBev, the Belgian-Brazilian brewer, submitted a final recommended offer for SABMiller on Wednesday, having raised a record $75bn loan to support the transaction.

International Bank of Qatar (IBQ) has mandated three banks to arrange a debut benchmark dollar Reg S senior bond. The deal will be eagerly watched as it will be only the second senior conventional ME bank deal since June.

National Bank of Oman has set initial price thoughts on a tier one perpetual note. Commercial Bank of Dubai’s new $400m five year senior deal, meanwhile, was down in the secondary market on Wednesday, but investors said the slide was down to wider market weakness.

Alpha Bank has launched a €1.6bn share offer, looking to build on new equity created from a debt exchange as it tries to fill a near €3bn capital hole with private funds.

The Singapore dollar bond market is welcoming a new participant this week with Swiss lender Julius Baer going live on November 11 with an additional tier one trade – the first time a foreign bank is issuing an AT1 in the Lion City.

Koninklijke KPN, the Dutch telecoms company, sold a quarter of its stake in Telefónica Deutschland for €805m on Monday night, but the deal failed to get covered, leaving Citigroup and UBS long.

Istituto Centrale delle Banche Popolari Italiane (ICBPI) sold its €1.1bn PIK note on November 6 in what looked like a comeback week for the high yield bond market — but it turned out to be a short-lived pick-up.

Commercial Bank of Dubai is settling for a smaller print and wider spread than originally indicated on its latest five year dollar bond, according to rival bankers and buyers.

The Sultanate of Oman will launch syndicated for its $1bn sovereign loan tomorrow (Wednesday), according to a banker on the deal.