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German ball bearing producer Schaeffler has set price guidance on its €1.8bn-equivalent term loan ‘B’.

GM Financial, the finance arm of General Motors, finally emerged with its long-awaited euro debut issue on Wednesday.

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

Strong domestic support allowed unrated Austrian metals group Voestalpine to increase its seven year euro market return to €400m on Wednesday despite substantial price tightening.

German ball bearing producer Schaeffler has set price guidance on its €1.8bn-equivalent term loan ‘B’.

German ball bearing producer Schaeffler has launched a €1.8bn-equivalent six year term loan ‘B’ to refinance debt raised earlier this year.

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.

Eiffage, the French construction and concessions company, has signed a €1bn five year revolving credit facility with 16 banks. The deal was 25% oversubscribed.

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.

While the financial world has been enduring lay-offs and that ugly word “downsizing” at every turn over the last few years, Commerzbank’s Andrew Nicola has been fighting the tide by producing an army of mini-MTNers.

WMF, the German kitchenware producer, widened pricing on its €615m leveraged acquisition loan this week, becoming the latest in a run of borrowers to do so in September as lenders find more lucrative opportunities in the US.

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