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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.

Cerba has increased its buyout term loan to €794m after dropping a planned bond. It is the second successive large cap buyout this year in which that has happened.

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Six borrowers announced offerings in the European high yield bond market on Monday as borrowers looked to beat what could have been disruptive Dutch elections two days later.

Spie, the French technical services provider, brought the first new leveraged buy-out financing in the euro high yield bond market for three months this week with a €600m seven year senior unsecured bond.

The European Stability Mechanism returned to stellar form this week, hitting the sweet spot for euro demand and exceeding its first quarter funding target. Bpifrance Financement will look to follow up the supranational’s success on Wednesday.

Cerba Healthcare has released price guidance of just 325bp-350bp on its €544m buyout term loan, squeezing the tightening of recent repricings even further.

Natixis is rebuilding its DCM team in Asia Pacific following some high profile departures since last year.

Cerba Healthcare has scheduled the bank meeting for its much anticipated buyout loan package for Tuesday.

German card payments firm Concardis this week increased the term loan backing Advent International and Bain Capital’s buyout of the firm to €300m, reducing price guidance in the process, in a market still waiting on larger buyouts such as Cerba Healthcare to be syndicated.

The European high yield bond market has rebooted after a February in which US firms dominated sales, with so many local issuers now coming forward that high yield bankers have started worrying that March could be overcrowded if the entire deal pipeline materialises.

Kuwait National Petroleum (KNP) is in talks with 10 banks over a loan to fund its expansion plans.