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Gitanjali Gems is seeking to list its wholly-owned subsidiary Nakshatra World in an IPO that will raise up to Rp6.5bn ($95.9m).

Four European lenders have turned down a $2bn loan for National Bank of Abu Dhabi (NBAD), while local banks are starting to return to secondary markets for the first time in a year — signs that the Middle Eastern loan market could see a different set of banks driving it in 2017. Elly Whittaker reports.

Deutsche Bank, Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan are joint lead arrangers and bookrunners for a bridge loan of up to £12.2bn ($15.18bn) which 21st Century Fox will use to buy the remaining shares in Sky it does not own.

Commitments for CVC-owned French healthcare firm Elsan were due on Thursday for its €730m acquisition term loan, after guidance was tightened twice in an ever bullish loan market as the year end drew near.

VietJet Aviation sealed Vietnam’s largest IPO this week, pricing the D3.79tr ($167m) trade in the lower half of expectations and becoming a rare bright spot in an otherwise patchy market for stock sales.

Shares in Bank of Ireland, the Irish lender, fell 3.7% on Friday after Fairfax Financial Holdings, the Canadian insurer controlled by billionaire Prem Watsa, sold half its remaining stake through a daytime accelerated bookbuild.

Chinese e-commerce solutions firm Baozun has raised $73.5m after closing a follow-on placement multiple times covered, despite its stock having a wobbly start to the week.

Deutsche Bank’s Spanish subsidiary kept its commitment to issue around €2bn of Cédulas a year and on Wednesday launched a well-oversubscribed €1bn five year, even though the cost was much higher than the European Central Bank’s Targeted Long Term Refinancing Operation.

Apollo-owned French glass maker Verallia launched a €1.375bn term loan refinancing with a lender call on Thursday afternoon, its first deal since its failed €500m pay-if-you-can dividend recap offering in October.

The syndicate that supplied a $405m loan on which Royal Industries defaulted, is waiting for one last bank’s go-ahead for the borrower’s waiver request. All lenders must sign off the changes before they can be implemented.

VietJet Aviation is set to seal Vietnam’s largest domestic IPO as it heads towards the end of its management roadshow. It is giving international investors a rare opportunity to buy stock thanks to its decision to use a Reg S structure, with more privately-owned companies expected to follow suit. Jonathan Breen reports.

Deutsche Bank’s Spanish subsidiary kept its commitment to issue around €2bn Cédulas per annum and on Wednesday issued a well-oversubscribed €1bn five year, even though the cost was much higher than the European Central Bank’s Term Long Term Refinancing Operation.