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Entertainment One, the FTSE 250 UK media company, priced £285m of senior secured notes at the tight end of price talk on Friday (December 4), after finishing a five day roadshow.

Vivalto Santé, the French private health service provider, has announced €228m of loans for its leveraged buyout by Mubadala Development Co, the Abu Dhabi Government owned investment and development company.

General Electric has terminated an agreement to sell its appliance business to Swedish household appliance producer Electrolux, toasting bankers' plans to provide bridge financing.

The loan market will gather in London on Wednesday, December 9, for the Loan Syndicate Manager’s Forum's charity carol service.

Ghana National Cocoa Board (Cocobod) is in the market for a three year club loan, after signing its annual $1.8bn one year loan refinancing in September.

Egypt’s Banque Misr signed its $250m three year loan on Sunday with five lead banks.

Westpac looked to the sterling market for a seven year senior deal on Monday, as the number of redemptions in the UK currency swells towards the end of the year.

Commerzbank and Svenska Handelsbanken both launched senior deals on Monday, as the FIG market’s positive sentiment continued unhindered by what for many was the disappointing outcome of last week’s European Central Bank meeting.

Russian steel company Evraz is roadshowing a Reg S senior unsecured dollar bond through six active bookrunners and two passive, in tandem with a tender offer.

Zesco, the Zambian state-owned power firm, is syndicating a $122m seven year loan, part of which is guaranteed by US government agency USAID.

Standard Chartered Hong Kong has priced its debut three year Panda bond at 3.50% at a total issuing size of Rmb1bn ($156m), two sources on the deal have told GlobalRMB. The deal is the first out of the bank’s total Rmb2bn Panda bond quota from the People’s Bank of China (PBoC).

Bank of China’s shareholders have given the go ahead for plans to list subsidiary BoC Aviation on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange.