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Exact, the Dutch software company, has returned from a New York bank meeting for its $460m acquisition loan on Monday, to prepare for a London presentation to European investors who are usually more chary of the tech sector than their US peers.

Virgin Media expects its leverage to remain within levels set by its parent company Liberty Global, after it raised a £925m-equivalent bond to finance a merger with another subsidiary, UPC Ireland.

Pirelli, the Italian tyre maker, has revved up the year's loan market business with a €1bn facility signed last week, that the company said was three times oversubscribed.

Book sizes for Tuesday’s offerings of senior fixed rate deals have fallen sharply, compared to the unusually swollen orders placed for new issues in recent days, but the market is still steaming ahead.

Demand was robust for floating rate paper on Tuesday as Commonwealth Bank of Australia sold its first deal of 2015 and Caisse Centrale Desjardins du Quebec (CCDJ) returned to the senior unsecured euro market after an absence of almost five years.

Export Import Bank of Korea (Kexim) staged a successful return to the international debt market on Monday, January 12, selling a SEC registered dual tranche deal that drew over $6bn of demand. Amid high levels of volatility seen since the start of the new year, bankers carefully chose a good window for the Korean issuer, who achieved both its size and pricing goals.

After the extraordinary fireworks of Santander’s €7.5bn block trade on Thursday January 8, the year’s more workaday business in European equity capital markets began in earnest on Monday, as five IPOs were launched.

GE Capital issued an €850m five year floating rate note and a €1bn seven year fixed rate bond on Monday, bringing total public issuance by the company so far this year to over $7.1bn.

A week before the European Central Bank is expected to announce a programme of quantitative easing and Greece elects its next president, investors are loading up on senior unsecured paper from top names in FIG, and being paid big new issue premiums. Investors are demanding more in part because of fears of volatility in coming weeks stemming from the ECB and Greece, bankers said.

Export Import Bank of Korea (Kexim) was back in the international debt market on January 12, opening books to a SEC-registered dual tranche benchmark transaction that is split between a five year and a 10 year.

Singapore-listed Religare Health Trust Trustee Manager has mandated four banks to conduct a roadshow for a possible Singapore dollar issue.

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