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Albéa, the French packaging firm owned by Sun Capital Partners, has scheduled a bank meeting for Monday in London about a $921m-equivalent bond to loan refinancing and dividend recapitalisation.

Investors showed strong appetite for subordinated deals in spite of a softer session in the middle of the week, allowing three financial institutions to use the week’s window to top up their capital.

Kingsbridge, the holding company of cable TV service provider Asia Broadcast Satellite (ABS), has launched a $280m refinancing into general syndication.

Alfa-Bank emerged with pricing for a three year euro-denominated bond on Thursday morning, in the first deal in the currency from the Russian lender since June 2014.

Investors put a whopping $16.3bn of orders into a $4bn three tranche deal from ING this week, only its second holding company level senior issue since it changed its resolution entity earlier this year.

Spearhead International, a central and eastern Europe based agriculture company, has signed its first syndicated loan for €167m.

Credit Bank of Moscow has named leads for a rare Russian Basel III-compliant tier two bond, its first capital issue.

Oil products storage and distribution firm Puma Energy is back in the loan market for a two-pronged $570m financing, to extend as well as replace some of its existing debt.

Netherlands-based telecoms firm Altice, one of the European leveraged finance market’s leading issuers, held a lender call at 3pm London time on Thursday for €1.6bn of loan refinancings in euros, and more in dollars.

Poland was quick to grab on to the relief rally that followed Wednesday's US Federal Reserve meeting, jumping into the market with a long 10 year and a tap of its existing €1.5bn 2036s on Thursday morning.

ABH Financial, the holding company of Russia’s Alfa-Bank, will meet investors in Europe next week for a rare Russian financial euro-denominated bond.

Shares in Avantium, the Dutch renewable chemicals company, closed 3.6% higher on Wednesday after it made its debut on the Amsterdam and Brussels exchanges following the completion of its €103m IPO.