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US chemicals producer Angus Chemicals will hold a bank meeting in London on Thursday for the first leveraged loan of the year, a $505m-equivalent deal that backs its buyout by Golden Gate Capital.

The Republic of Turkey, one of the emerging market countries expected to benefit from falling oil prices, is reopening its 2043 bonds today.

The largest publicly listed coal supplier in the world, China Shenhua Energy, is looking to diversify its financing avenues by dipping into the international debt market for the first time.

A consortium of ten banks has signed an HK$4.46bn triple tranche facility for CVC sponsored Hong Kong Broadband Network. The loan received much attention when agent JP Morgan first started sounding out banks, as some bankers felt it was too aggressively structured and with too loose covenants.

Tele Columbus, the German cable provider, will look to list on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange in the first half of 2015, having put off its initial public offering in October amid market volatility.

Property company Greenland Hong Kong’s subsidiary True Thrive has signed a three year dual currency loan term loan with a syndicate of eleven banks.

The Export-Import Bank of Korea (Kexim) has mandated seven banks for its first bond sale of 2015, in a deal that is expected to hit the screens by mid-January. The borrower is making an early start to its fundraising in a year that will see it raise up to $13bn offshore.

Deutsche Bank looks set to finish second in the 2014 league table for bookrunners of global supranational, sovereign and agency bonds, excluding US agencies. Deutsche has been top every year since 2010.

Haitong Securities tapped into the current buoyant sentiment for Chinese brokerage firms to close a hefty HK$29.94bn ($3.86bn) placement of H-shares, which saw bankers working behind the scenes to secure a cadre of high-grade investors.

HKBN is making a comeback to the Hong Kong market in an IPO that will see its major shareholder CVC and Singapore sovereign wealth fund GIC pare down their stakes.

British Telecommunications has declined to confirm press reports that it is planning a £2bn rights issue as part of its financing for the £12.5bn takeover of EE, the UK mobile phone group. However, the market barely flinched at the news, suggesting a deal, if it comes, will not be a challenge.

British Telecommunications has declined to confirm press reports that it is planning a £2bn rights issue as part of its financing for the £12.5bn takeover of EE, the UK mobile phone group. However, the market barely flinched at the news, suggesting a deal, if it comes, will not be a challenge.