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Austria is to print a 10 year benchmark as investor sentiment rebounded after a torrid time last week as BNG priced a seven year bond.

Sociedade Nacional De Combustíveis De Angola (Sonangol) has completed a lengthy loan syndication for a $1bn five year loan, with Chinese banks taking big tickets, according to a banker on the deal.

Action, the Benelux non-food discount retailer, has allocated its €1.2bn dividend recap and refinancing facilities at an impressive margin in volatile market conditions.

Natixis defied the grim tone of the markets in the fourth quarter of 2015 as its capital markets business reported an increase in revenues. The bank argues its results vindicate its progress towards an asset-light model, as the investment solutions business bumped up revenues.

B&B Hotels, France’s third largest budget hotels group, closed the book for its €339m seven year term loan ‘B’ at a wide price this week, as the European leveraged loan market works through the last of the deals underwritten in 2015.

On Tuesday night the loan market gathered in all its finery to hear the winners of the 13th Syndicated Loan, Leveraged Finance and Private Placement Awards at the Guildhall, in London. The results are below.

Sociedade Nacional De Combustiveis De Angola (Sonangol) has completed a lengthy loan syndication for a $1bn five year loan, with Chinese banks taking big tickets, according to a banker on the deal.

Laboratoire Français du Fractionnement et des Biotechnologies (LFB), the French biopharmaceutical company, announced on Tuesday that it had raised a €124m Euro private placement, as the Euro PP market gathers pace, according to bankers.

The exceptionally advantageous terms issuers can get in the convertible market — and the product’s appeal to the bluest of blue chip names — were highlighted again on Thursday when LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton, the French luxury goods group, raised $600m at a deeply negative yield.

Concerns over the exodus of real money investors from the covered bond market were put to rest this week as a series of deals met exceptionally strong demand, with the sea change in sentiment being most conspicuous in the French sector.

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Swedbank and SEB this week launched deals that attracted the largest order books and the widest distribution of any covered bonds issued this year, along with the smallest concessions.