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Georgia Healthcare Group set on Monday morning the price range of its planned initial public offering, as it seeks to raise between $100m and $150m on the London Stock Exchange.

Iren, the newly rated Northern Italian utilities company, sailed through another day of low issuance on Monday, drawing in a €3.4bn order book for its €500m bond.

The initial public offering of Deezer, the French music streaming business, had on Monday afternoon not yet received sufficient demand from investors to get done, according to a banker close to the deal.

Republic of Cyprus is on track to price a rare combined syndication and switch offer. The deal will allow Cyprus to tidy up the short end of its curve while issuing a fresh 10 year note.

Inter-American Development Bank has sold a three tranche Uridashi from its Education, Youth and Employment (EYE) bond programme.

Socially responsible investors received a fresh menu of bonds on Monday, with a borrower announcing an inaugural climate bond, a regular SRI issuer entering a new currency and an agency returning to its sustainability format.

The European Stability Mechanism hired banks on Monday to run the latest piece of its inflated 2015 funding target, as its chief financial officer said the supranational could move into instruments other than euro benchmarks and bills.

A supranational issuer has nipped in to mandate for a dollar deal before a meeting of the US Federal Reserve’s Federal Open Market Committee later this week.

Groupe Autodistribution, the French car parts distributor, began a roadshow on Monday for €237m of pay-if-you-can notes to fund its acquisition by Bain Capital.

Kuwait petrochemicals firm Equate is in the market for a $6bn one year loan after signing a $3.2bn deal to buy ME Global last week.

Turkish automaker Tofas has completed syndication of a €200m seven year loan that will finance research and development projects for two cars.

The newly reopened Middle East bond market has tougher tests of demand ahead, with a trio of mandates hitting screens on Monday morning and two others rumoured.