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Leveraged loan investors this week showed healthy appetite for core European deals as French data processor Tessi and German jewellery maker Amor began marketing their acquisition loans.

CP Pokphand, part of Thai firm Charoen Pokphand Group, has raised a $600m loan to repay outstanding debt.

Cemex Holdings Philippines, an affiliate of Mexican cement giant Cemex, has kicked off bookbuilding for its Ps24.4bn ($526.3m) listing, with the offering generously covered, according to a source with knowledge of the situation.

China Development Bank Financial Leasing Co has launched its Hong Kong IPO, covering the HK$7.6bn ($980m) float at the low end of guidance. But it has only managed to do so with mainland cornerstone investors propping up nearly 80% of the deal.

China's GF Securities, which made its debut in the offshore syndicated loan market in 2014, is in talks with seven lenders for a fresh borrowing.

Yoigo, a Spanish mobile phone company with a 7% market share and 3.3m subscribers, long the subject of takeover speculation, will be bought by Másmóvil Ibercom, a smaller player that is also an internet service provider.

Dentressangle Initiatives is seeking €276m of loans to fund its acquisition of Tessi, the French provider of data processing services, which it also plans to delist.

Chinese investors are propping up most of China Development Bank Financial Leasing Co’s HK$7.6bn ($979.3m) listing, which launched on Tuesday with nearly 80% of the offer covered by mainland cornerstone investors.

Cemex Holdings Philippines has kicked off bookbuilding for its potential Ps24.4bn ($526.3m) listing, with the offering covered by cornerstones and anchor investors at the low end of guidance, according to a source with knowledge of the situation.

Manchester Airport Group, the UK airports company, has signed £560m of refinancing loan facilities after a recent bond issue.

China Development Bank Financial Leasing Co has finalised the marketing price range for its listing, which would raise HK$7.6bn ($979.5m) at the top end, and has signed up cornerstone investors to take up nearly 80% of the float, according to a source close to the deal.

More than three quarters of Brazilian industrial conglomerate Cosan’s bondholders agreed to sell their bonds in the early bird phase of a tender offer.