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  • The central bank of Laos is seeking a $100m loan through Taipei Fubon Bank, while simultaneously syndicating another deal of the same size via Cathay United Bank.
  • The 2019 loans market is raring to go, but lending officials say that the leveraged loan market needs some strong deals right away to ease the hangover lingering from last year.
  • Bank of the Lao PDR is taking commitments for a $100m four year borrowing in general syndication, offering lenders terms that are identical to its last offshore facility from 2015.
  • The global high yield bond market has produced $320bn of new issues in 2018, up to December 21, 43% down on last year’s total of $563bn, according to Dealogic. Sentiment has turned progressively more bearish as the year has worn on, with concerns about US-China trade hostility and overvaluation of US equities biting.
  • Leveraged finance markets are set for a fresh stream of buyout deals in the software industry next year, with Europe becoming a busier playground for US private equity firms.
  • Europe’s leveraged finance market has survived another year without a downturn — indeed, spirits are remarkably buoyant going into 2019. The market is priced for perfection, however, and with rates starting to rise, issuers and investors have some serious forward planning to do. Victor Jimenez reports.