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Privately-owned Royal Industries Indonesia is firming up a senior group of lenders for a $300m fundraising. The pricing on the deal is said to be similar to a $300m loan it sealed in 2013.

Malaysia Airports opened a €500m ($579m) seven year loan into general syndication on January 21, picking two European banks and one Malaysian bank to lead the deal. A portion of the loan will be used to finance the borrower’s acquisition of Turkey's Istanbul Sabiha Gokcen (ISG) International Airport.

First Gen Corp raised Ps7.5bn ($168m) through a placement of shares on January 20 as support from the company’s parent helped drive demand for the trade, even allowing the issuer to price its deal at one of the tightest discounts for a Philippine block.

Asia’s richest man, Li Ka-shing, has made headlines again. First came the announcement that Cheung Kong Holdings and Cheung Kong Infrastructure (CKI) were acquiring the UK’s Eversholt Rail Group in a multi-billion dollar deal. Then, just hours later, CKI raised HK$4.64bn ($599m) to part-fund the acquisition through a top-up placement, in a deal priced close to the top of guidance thanks to momentum driven by an order from a single global long-only fund.

Baosteel Resources International (BRI) is making its first entry in the international debt market having opened books for a dollar transaction on Wednesday, January 21.

Kazakhstan’s state-owned nuclear holding company Kazatomprom has signed a $450m facility agreement with banks to pay down eurobonds maturing this year.

State Grid Corp of China, which claims to be the world's largest utility, issued its first euro bond on Monday, a €1bn deal comprising seven and 12 year notes.

Five high yield companies were roadshowing for bond issues in Europe on Monday, as banks in the market have refound their confidence and are ready to begin bringing deals in earnest.

Enel, the Italian electricity company, has set the minimum spread for its new 10 year benchmark euro bond at 115bp over mid-swaps, which one banker described as a "very investor-friendly" level.

Privately owned Royal Industries Indonesia is firming up a senior group of lenders for a $300m fundraising. The pricing on the deal is said to be similar to a $300m loan it sealed in 2013.

Swedish Match, which makes the tobacco product, snus, has secured a Skr1.5bn (€158m) multicurrency revolving facility. The loan will refinance a Skr1.6bn loan signed in 2010.

Deutche Bank’s wealth management arm, Deutsche AWM, this week launched a new exchange-traded fund tracking a basket of 97 euro corporate high yield bonds with tenors of one to three years.