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The £390m acquisition loan backing CVC’s buyout of Sky Bet, the online gambling arm of television group Sky, will be launched today. It is the second ever all-sterling leveraged finance deal with a covenant-lite term sheet, bankers said.

The senior FIG market’s new year surge accelerated on Thursday, with another five new issues announced in the wake of Wednesday’s successful prints. Attractive new issue premiums have kept demand high for senior unsecured prints, according to syndicate managers.

Wuxi Pharma to shelve general — Greenland signs dual currency loan — Jet raises $150m — Country Garden clubs for Hk$4.5bn

China Huarong Asset Management is back in the market, launching a multi-tranche trade in dollars as it looks to become one of the first Asian companies to tap the debt market this year.

Financing for Altice's planned takeover of Portugal Telecom has been put on hold, as the telco is being investigated over its investments in Grupo Espírito Santo.

Abbey National and Banque Fédérative du Crédit Mutuel have opened up 2015's market for fixed rate senior unsecured bank bonds, offering investors longer tenors than the three floaters from other issuers also in the market today.

Attractive levels helped drive demand for the first wave of floating rate notes to hit the Euromarket this year on Wednesday, as Bank of Nova Scotia, Rabobank and Société Générale all issued floating rate trades.

Tele Columbus, the German cable provider, will look to list on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange in the first half of 2015, having put off its initial public offering in October amid market volatility.

Property company Greenland Hong Kong’s subsidiary True Thrive has signed a three year dual currency loan term loan with a syndicate of eleven banks.

Deutsche Bank looks set to finish second in the 2014 league table for bookrunners of global supranational, sovereign and agency bonds, excluding US agencies. Deutsche has been top every year since 2010.

HKBN is making a comeback to the Hong Kong market in an IPO that will see its major shareholder CVC and Singapore sovereign wealth fund GIC pare down their stakes.

British Telecommunications has declined to confirm press reports that it is planning a £2bn rights issue as part of its financing for the £12.5bn takeover of EE, the UK mobile phone group. However, the market barely flinched at the news, suggesting a deal, if it comes, will not be a challenge.