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Europris, the Norwegian private equity-backed discount retailer, closed at Nkr43 a share on Monday, as it had on Friday last week, the firm’s first day of trading in Oslo after its Nkr3.75bn ($485m) IPO.

Mercuria Energy Trading, the Swiss commodities trading group, has increased its revolving credit facility during syndication, but still kept it smaller than the $2.65bn it signed last year.

The Kurdistan Regional Government has mandated Goldman Sachs and Deutsche Bank to arrange a bond.

Healthcare-based Universal Medical Financial & Technical Advisory Services Co and Harmonicare Medical Holdings made their presence felt in Hong Kong on Monday as they launched IPOs worth a combined HK$6.06bn ($781.71m).

Chinese names have packed up and are heading out for investor meetings across Asia and Europe as the issuers consider bonds denominated in dollars, renminbi and euros.

Export-Import Bank of Korea (Kexim) has mandated seven banks to work on its return to the dollar bond market which could be as early as this week.

Red Star Macalline Group Corp priced its IPO in Hong Kong at the top of the range on June 19, raising HK$7.22bn ($931.34m) for the furniture retailer-cum-shopping mall owner that has been dubbed China’s answer to Ikea.

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High grade borrowers are set to pull the trigger on a slew of refinancings and M&A deals after the Federal Reserve took a big step closer to its first interest rate rise since 2006 following the conclusion of a two day meeting in Washington on June 17.

Comments from US Federal Reserve chair Janet Yellen this week have fuelled expectations of a rate rise this year — but dollars should remain more attractive for issuance than euros.

Douglas Holding, the German perfumery chain, enlivened the leveraged loan market this week, launching a €1bn deal that will contribute to its buyout by CVC.

New York-listed Nord Anglia, the international schools operator, sold a Sfr200m secured high yield bond on Thursday. It had to trim the size, but was able to hold out against pressure to widen pricing.