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Syndication of Elysium Healthcare’s reduced £133m loan has run over into 2017 at investors’ requests, according to a banker on the deal, as the European leveraged loan market returns with expectations of a healthy New Year pipeline.

India’s two main stock exchanges are set to start 2017 on a positive note, with Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) likely to launch a $200m deal this month and National Stock Exchange (NSE) bringing a jumbo $1bn IPO in the second quarter.

Shares in Greencore, the Anglo-Irish sandwich and convenience food producer, closed 3% higher on Wednesday after it completed its £439m rights issue to finance its acquisition of Peacock Foods, a US competitor.

Gitanjali Gems is seeking to list its wholly-owned subsidiary Nakshatra World in an IPO that will raise up to Rp6.5bn ($95.9m).

Another piece of next year’s equity capital markets issuance puzzle was turned over today, when Lonza, the Swiss pharmaceutical and chemical company, announced a Sfr3.3bn rights issue to pay for the acquisition of Capsugel from KKR.

Laurus Labs, the Indian pharmaceutical firm, is on track to raise Rp13.3bn ($197.0m) after it wrapped up bookbuilding on Thursday and was more than 4x covered.

Banca Monte dei Paschi’s shares leapt 7% on Wednesday morning, on growing hopes that a way will be found for the Italian state to strengthen its balance sheet, enabling it to achieve a €5bn capital raising demanded by the European Central Bank and avoid a bail-in.

Tonight, Nordic Nanovector, the Norwegian developer of radio-immunotherapeutics for haematological cancers, is raising Nkr527m ($63m) to finance clinical trials, by placing new shares with institutional investors.

Indian pharmaceutical firm Laurus Labs has opened books for an IPO that could raise Rp13.3bn ($195.3m), set to be the year's last big listing in the country.

In another sign of the cautious mood gripping the IPO market in Western Europe, Varta AG, the German microbatteries maker, has called off its €150m Frankfurt IPO. Yet the Nordic market continues to show its resilience, as three successful flotations reach their conclusion this week.

Varta AG, the German maker of micro-batteries for hearing aids and wireless headphones, has withdrawn its Frankfurt IPO that was due to be priced on Tuesday, blaming the “current unfavourable market environment”.

Laurus Labs is raising as much as Rp13.6bn ($198m) from an IPO in India which will open books early next month, after setting the terms of the transaction.