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  • Euro private placement lenders are limbering up for a fight over the right to refinance the first generation of Euro PP deals, many of which are maturing this year. The market began in earnest in 2012, and many of the deals had six year tenors.
  • Singaporean commodities company Vitol Asia has attracted 19 participants to its one year revolving credit facility.
  • Commitments from a 15-strong syndicate group has allowed China’s Kingboard Chemical Holdings to increase its loan to HK$7bn ($892m) from HK$6bn.
  • Attractive pricing in the dollar loan market is pushing Indonesian borrowers offshore, despite guidance from the country’s central bank to curb foreign currency debt exposure.
  • Shipping company Irish Continental Group has signed an €80m financing facility with the European Investment Bank, with the financing coming soon after the company announced a spate of committed and uncommitted loans totaling €608m-equivalent. The ship it finances will be the largest cruise ferry in the world.
  • Cloetta, the Swedish confectionery company, has amended and extended its euro and krona loans in an entirely Nordic banking affair, and also launched a commercial paper programme.