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Home building materials maker China Lesso Group Holdings signed its syndicated loan at $600m, twice the launch size, on Thursday.

State Bank of India, which allocated its last loan in June, has launched a fresh financing into the market through five mandated lead arrangers and bookrunners.

With sterling spreads tightening and foreign investors showing increasing interest, both HSBC and BNP Paribas looked to take advantage of funding opportunities in the UK bond market this week.

Morrison Utility Services launched on Wednesday £170m of loans to early bird syndication, bringing supply to a market where sterling issuance has dropped more than 55% year to date.

Cineworld, Europe's second largest cinema operator, has increased the size of its revolving credit facility by £25m to fund its acquisition of five UK cinema sites.

Mizuho has hired a former HSBC banker to head its EMEA FIG team.

Bank of Communications Hong Kong branch made an opportunistic move this week to complete its second dollar bond outing of the year. Its floating rate note attracted a multiple times covered book, allowing it to increase the size of the deal while pushing down funding costs.

Places for People, the UK housing company, on Wednesday sold £400m ($519.35m) of bonds with orders more than 2.5 times the offering size, despite tapping the market just two weeks after Moody’s cut its rating to A3.

Greenko Investment Company is building books for what will be India’s first dollar-denominated green bond by a corporate issuer. On the same day, BoCom HK has returned with a three year dollar floater.

HSH Portfoliomanagement, a wind-down agency for non-performing ship financing loans from HSH Nordbank, has hired banks to run a roadshow that could be followed by a debut syndication.

Morrison Utility Services is to launch this week loans backing the first UK leveraged buyout since Britain’s vote to leave the EU, according to a banker with knowledge of the deal.

The Autonomous Community of Madrid has crushed its long dated borrowing costs with a 15 year euro medium term note.