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Minimax Viking, the German fire protection systems provider, has repriced dollar and euro tranches of €701m-equivalent of leveraged loans within guidance, but at different ends.

Labco, the French medical diagnostics company, plans to refinance all of its bonds with a new €800m issue. It agreed in May to be bought by private equity firm Cinven after pulling an IPO at the last minute.

CBR Fashion Holding, a holding company for two German womenswear brands, will seek to raise €200m by selling new shares in an initial public offering.

Deutsche Pfandbriefbank (Pbb), the specialist German bank nationalised in 2009, announced on Wednesday that it would float in Frankfurt in July, in a deal that one banker said could value it at close to €2bn.

Grupo Antolin, the Spanish car interiors maker, on Wednesday sold €400m of notes at 5.125% to repay a $525m bridge loan that funded its purchase of Magna International's car interiors business.

Senior figures within Deutsche Bank expected management change, but not so slowly — many thought co-CEOs Anshu Jain and Jürgen Fitschen might have gone before Strategy 2020 had been hammered out.

Astaldi, the Italian construction group, has signed a $5bn financing deal with banks to back a motorway project in Turkey.

Deutsche Bank sold part of its private equity arm’s shareholding in SLM Solutions, a German 3D printing company, in an accelerated bookbuild on Wednesday night.

Euro high yield investors on Thursday had more than €1.8bn of bonds to consider and two more tranches in euros whose final sizes were yet to be set — New Look, the UK fashion retailer, being at the forefront with the largest offering.

What’s a CEO worth? Based on the price action in Deutsche Bank on Monday, roughly $2.7bn. But how much can one man ever expect to change a business?

Deutsche’s incoming CEO has the credentials to execute the bank’s strategic plan, but rivals will look to exploit instability at the investment bank.

Gabon launched a 10 year $500m note this week, bolstering African issuance volumes that were already at a record high.