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Apax-owned Top Right, the UK information and events group, has launched a £435m-equivalent refinancing loan that will be denominated in dollars and euros.

Aabar Investments, the Abu Dhabi investment group, raised €2bn with its second exchangeable bond on Tuesday, to repay a €1.25bn exchangeable into Daimler shares it issued in 2011.

Air France KLM may have to offer a yield of up to 6% on its unrated hybrid bonds, according to market participants.

Veolia Environnement, the French water and waste management company, has announced a global investor call for a new bond issue as it tenders for three existing notes.

DTEK Energy Group, the largest privately owned energy company in Ukraine, is warning of a possible default as it attempts to exchange its $200m Eurobonds due April 28, 2015.

Hyundai Capital Services returned to the offshore debt market, pricing a 5.5 year dollar bond on March 23. The rarity of high quality Korean corporate credits, the name value of Hyundai as well as a recent rating upgrade attracted strong demand, allowing the Korean issuer to achieve both its size and pricing aims

Monday was a bank holiday in Colombia but so well has the market reacted to last week’s US Federal Reserve statement that the South American nation ignored a sleepy day in Bogotá to stride into markets and tap its recently issued 2045s.

Aabar Investments, the investment arm of Abu Dhabi’s International Petroleum Investment Corp, is this evening bookbuilding a bond of €1.5bn to €2bn, exchangeable into shares of UniCredit.

French water and waste management company Suez Environnement has refinanced its hybrid bond, due to be called in September, with a new €500m non-call seven year hybrid.

Kevin Latter has been appointed head of investment banking in South Africa at Bank of American Merrill Lynch.

Hyundai Capital Services has returned to the international market, opening books to a 5.5 year 144A/Reg S dollar bond on Monday.

GF Securities is making a big splash in the ECM market, opening books for its Hong Kong IPO of up to HK$27.9bn ($3.6bn) on Monday, March 23 and offering a very generous discount to where the company’s A-shares are trading. The bargain buy has resonated well with the market, with cornerstone investors having signed up for more than half of the entire trade.