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Swiss travel retailer Dufry began roadshowing on Monday its €500m high yield bond, part of the financing package to support its buyout of World Duty Free.

Leveraged loans of €725m backing the merger of French private healthcare groups Vedici and Vitalia are being marketed at a bank meeting today.

Cinven has appointed Bank of America Merrill Lynch and Morgan Stanley to lead the public sale of one of its largest assets, CeramTec, the German high performance ceramics manufacturer.

The corporate bond pipeline is swelling again as Transport et Infrastructures Gaz France, the French gas distribution and storage company, mandated banks on Monday for its second ever euro deal.

The European Stability Mechanism is set to bring the first syndicated euro deal with a size over €1bn in more than a month — but SSA bankers are split on whether it will reopen the euro market.

A French agency is the latest SSA issuer preparing to tap a dollar market that is in good health — although not every point on the curve may be open for borrowers wishing to follow this week.

French railway operator SNCF Réseau has more than doubled the length of its outstanding maturity curve with a century long medium term note.

888 Holdings, the London-listed online gaming firm, will buy rival bwin.party using a $600m term loan and $50m revolving credit facility.

Price talk has emerged on the €1bn leveraged loan backing Apollo Global’s acquisition of Verallia, as the French glass bottle maker joins a rush of leveraged finance issuance.

Austrian insurer Uniqa Group has launched a €500m subordinated note, its first appearance in the market since 2013.

Crédit Agricole’s head of DCM for Asia is returning to London, GlobalCapital understands.

The FIG market is slowly cranking into life with Goldman Sachs’ staggered dual tranche offering proving there is demand at both the long and short ends of the curve.