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Bulgarian Energy Holding has picked lead banks for its €650m loan, after taking six months and being downgraded during the arranging process.

Bank of Communications (BoCom) Financial Leasing is getting ready to hit the road ahead of a Reg S dollar offering that could come as early as next week.

Berkshire Hathaway drove a pre-ECB meeting rush of issuance on Wednesday as the conglomerate wasted no time following its giant seven tranche bond issued in the US market on Tuesday.

Two French leveraged loan deals were launched on Wednesday, both of which back leveraged buyouts, as the market claws its way back to issuing primary deals after a sluggish month.

Emerging market issuers were busy locking down funding through all avenues this week. The CEEMEA and Latin America bond markets are churning out deals while the main focus in loans is on a jumbo transaction for Saudi Arabia.

European high yield, which has had a dismal 2016 so far, is making another try to break out of its lethargy today, as LeasePlan, the Dutch car finance bank, is relaunching its €1.55bn bond to finance its leveraged buyout.

Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group has mandated eight banks to run its $4bn loan, with invitations to be sent out to lenders soon.

All bonds great and small from the Iberian market were available on Tuesday, as the Spanish sovereign brought a long-awaited 30 year syndication and the Community of the Basque Country made a rare visit to the market.

There was a double breakthrough in dollars for public sector borrowers on Tuesday, as Bank Nederlandse Gemeenten reopened the 10 year part of the curve for core issuers for the first time in seven months and Sweden priced the tightest three year benchmark since the first week of the year.

UK property group Hammerson came to the corporate bond market on Tuesday with a €500m offering, as deal flow hit a more subdued tone ahead of the European Central Bank’s Thursday meeting.

Ten of the 11 banks that underwrote Saipem’s €3.5bn rights issue sold the bulk of their remaining overhang in the stock in a block trade on Monday night, making a gain. But Banca Imi decided to take the riskier path of selling its holdings by itself at a later date.

Kuwait Projects Company (Kipco) was on track to print 2016's first corporate bond from CEEMEA on Tuesday as Turkish conglomerate Koc Holdings also said it would issue a seven year bond.