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  • The loan package backing Ardian’s buyout of Prosol Group, the parent of French food retailer Grand Frais, is set to increase leverage at the firm to more than five-and-a-half times Ebitda, a level that one investor said was overly aggressive in the sector.
  • Corporate bond issuers in Europe were making up for lost time with a slew of deals on Wednesday, after a sluggish start this week with just one deal for Renault’s finance arm RCI Banque on Monday. Books are big and deals are tightening strongly in bookbuild.
  • Even as South Africa and Halkbank prove that idiosyncratic risks are ever present in in emerging market bonds, conditions remain beyond syndicate bankers wildest dreams. That is good news for the bulging pipeline.
  • ONGC Videsh (OVL), the overseas investment arm of Indian state-owned ONGC, has selected three banks for a $500m term loan to replace a bridge from last year. The oil firm is also raising funds in yen, and has picked two Japanese lenders for the financing, said a source.
  • The Croatian parliament will debate a new bill on Wednesday that aims to provide added support to retailer Agrokor’s faltering liquidity situation, according to a statement from the country's government.
  • Investment banks' revenues from leveraged finance in Europe rose 146% to $537m in the first quarter from the first quarter of 2016, as the high yield market surged back into life and loan refinancings were ubiquitous.