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Several CEE entities revealed funding plans at Euromoney’s Central and Eastern European Forum in Vienna this week. Here is a roundup of some of those plans.

Renewed concerns about Italian banks’ high levels of non-performing loans triggered a severe sell-off of their subordinated bonds this week, as the market enters the new bail-in era.

As WTI and Brent crude oil prices slip down below $30, high yield analysts are pointing at Spain’s oil producer Repsol as the first European company that could cross over into the sub-investment grade market.

Chinese property developers could face rating downgrades if the renminbi continues to fall, according to Standard & Poor’s.

Veritas Technologies, the US software firm that Carlyle Group is buying from Symantec, will aim to complete a revised $7.4bn sale next week after failing to secure financing in November.

Hungary may add more banks to the mandate for its potential dim sum bonds, said Andras Rez, deputy chief executive officer at the government debt management agency (AKK) in Hungary.

The Bank of Portugal could compensate Novo Banco bondholders who were written down at the end of last year, as the controversial bail-in comes under further scrutiny.

The treasury chief of one of Russia’s largest private banks is set to retire this summer.

Belarusbank has signed what it describes as the largest loan in Belarusian banking history for €245m, although the country’s wilted syndicated market means that Belarusbank was also the issuer that set that record.

A $300m three year loan for Development Bank of the Philippines (DBP) has gone into general syndication via three mandated lead arrangers and bookrunners.

Citi’s Asia Pacific franchise posted a solid set of numbers in 2015, which regional CEO Francisco Aristeguieta is keen to continue in a volatile 2016, according to an internal memo seen by GlobalCapital Asia.

Tata Power subsidiary Bhira Investments is understood to have mandated six banks to arrange a refinancing of a $460m loan wrapped up in October 2014.