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Worldwide Flight Services, the cargo and luggage handling business owned by LBO France, is roadshowing a €225m unsecured bond to support its acquisition by Platinum Equity.

Eco World Development Group has shelved plans to create Malaysia’s first property-based special purpose acquisition company (Spac), opting instead to list its international assets directly on the local bourse.

Following the departure of HSBC's head of EMEA loan syndicate, Andrew McMurdo, in April, another senior loans banker is leaving for personal reasons.

Charles Li is to remain head of Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing (HKEx) for at least three more years, after the bourse operator extended his contract.

Spreads on junior bank debt are 67% wider on average this year than last, according to Fitch research, as investors have digested bail-in becoming a reality in Europe.

European money market funds are buying more and more Chinese bank debt as low yields and falling short-end issuance from European banks forces them to look elsewhere.

The International Finance Facility for Immunisation (IFFIm) is planning a second sukuk deal, and should announce the transaction in the next few weeks, said bankers familiar with the borrower’s plans.

The transformation of the euro market for public sector borrowers from a calm sea of ever falling yields to a tempest of volatility took another step this week — and worse could be on the horizon.

AP Møller-Mærsk, the Danish shipping-to-oil conglomerate, has extended its $5.1bn flagship credit facility by one year, to 2020.

IndiGo, the Indian budget airline, has fine-tuned its corporate structure to create more headroom for foreign investors as it inches closer to a $400m-$500m IPO in the second half of the year or 2016.

Greek bank debt has taken a battering this week, in some cases falling to record lows. But default or not, for the FIG market the worry is that the autumn will not offer much more security.

Solar power company China Singyes Solar Technologies has hit the offshore loan market for a $150m three year fundraising, with two banks at the top. The loan follows on the heels of another fundraising by a company in the same industry — Xinyi Solar. But the China Singyes facility offers a substantially higher return.