Crédit Agricole

Russian steelmaker Evraz Group is offering to buy back its 2015 bonds at just over par. While the offer is reckoned to be on the tight side, analysts expected investors will jump at the opportunity as Russian risk continues to increase.

Gunvor International and Gunvor SA, subsidiaries of Gunvor Group, have signed a $1bn revolving credit facility with a syndicate of 25 banks, down from 38 on its $1.5bn loan a year ago.

Spie, the French engineering and communications firm, gave price guidance for its €911m loan at a London bank meeting on Monday.

Didier Leblanc, head of loan syndication and trading, Asia Pacific, at BNP Paribas, will leave the bank in January, according to a source.

Pricing for a S$1.3bn ($991m) loan to back the acquisition of Vietnamese state owned Saigon Beer Alcohol Beverage Corp (Sabeco) has come in low, said bankers. Singaporean company Fraser and Neave (F&N), which is borrowing the money, has split the fundraising equally between a term loan and a bridge.

Grupo Actividades de Construcción y Servicios (ACS) of Spain is in talks with a group of banks to refinance €2.2bn of debt, and plans to complete the deal in January 2015.

Spie, the French engineering and communications firm, gave price guidance for its €911m loan at a London bank meeting on Monday.

Heavy demand for Unitymedia's €785m bond issue on Tuesday turned it into a €1bn and $550m offer that still left some investors wanting more.

Syndication for the $3.2bn portion of Tata Steel’s $5.6bn borrowing has seen about 13 banks join with nearly $940m in commitments, said a banker. Allocations for the deal are due to be out soon.

The Spanish insurance company Mapfre is near to completion on a loan refinancing deal with 11 banks.

Onex, the Canadian private equity firm, has acquired SIG Combibloc, the Swiss drinks carton maker, for €3.75bn and confirmed 10 banks that will arrange the leveraged buyout.

A supranational and an agency nipped in to print tightly priced taps of euro-denominated debt this week.