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Finnish manufacturer Konecranes has signed a €50m seven year bilateral loan with the Nordic Investment Bank.

Deutsche Bahn, the German state-owned railway company, launched an innovative bond today: the first floating rate note it had ever issued in a public, syndicated form.

Ghana's national cocoa board Cocobod is garnering interest from banks new to its lending group as the Friday response deadline approaches for its $1.6bn annual pre-export finance facility.

Paper and packaging company Mondi has signed a deal to extend the maturity of a €750m revolving credit facility from 2016 to 2019.

Europe’s corporate bond market was knocked sideways on Thursday by a gust of fear about peripheral Europe, after problems deepened at Portugal's Banco Espírito Santo. The market has not shut down, but ACS, the Spanish construction company, pulled a deal and no issuer managed to price tighter than its initial thoughts.

The Inter-American Development Bank took advantage of strong demand for dollar paper this week to sell its largest dollar benchmark, while Bank Nederlandse Gemeenten also visited the market, suggesting that appetite remains robust despite many investors getting ready to embark on summer holidays.

Italian defence contractor Finmeccanica has signed a €2.2bn revolving credit facility, €200m smaller than the 2010 facility being refinanced.

Three issuers launched covered bonds this week with varying results, which suggested that the converging trend between core and peripheral Europe has stalled. Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena (MPS) struggled to attract anything like the demand seen in its previous covered bond as Portuguese woes outweighed the programme’s rating upgrade into investment grade territory.

Zurich Insurance cast a wide net to catch as many investors as possible with its first senior Swiss franc print of 2014 on Tuesday, offering three tranches to sell a total Sfr600m ($670.8m) of fixed and floating rate notes.

Commerzbank loan syndication, sales and trading banker Sandy Bruce will be moving to a new position at the bank at the end of this month.

Italian defence contractor Finmeccanica has signed a €2.2bn revolving credit facility, €200m smaller than the 2010 facility being refinanced.

Zurich Insurance opted to cast a wide net to catch as many investors as possible with its first senior Swiss franc print of 2014 on Tuesday, offering three tranches to sell a combined total of Sfr600m ($670.8m) of fixed and floating rate notes.