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Peking University Founder Group Co, BOC Aviation and Yuexiu Property Co are meeting investors for their upcoming bond plans, while China National Chemical Corp’s Swiss subsidiary Syngenta is also gearing up for a mega deal.

Czech investment fund PPF Group has kicked off the syndication of a €3.025bn loan, which it is using to fund the acquisition of Norwegian telecoms group Telenor’s central and eastern European operations.

Ukrainian steel and mining company Metinvest sold its dual tranche five and eight year bond on Wednesday, but the thin oversubscription and pricing at the wide end of final price guidance have suggested a meagre appetite for hairier bits of emerging market debt.

Czech investment fund PPF is in the market to syndicate a €3.025bn loan to fund the acquisition of Norwegian telecoms group Telenor’s central eastern European business. The loan is split into two term loans and a revolving credit facility.

Swiss telecoms provider Swisscomm found strong demand for its new corporate bond deal. However, investors were very clear on where they saw the value in the deal and the issuer had to pay significant spreads to ensure the deal’s success.

Ukrainian steel and mining company Metinvest has released initial price guidance for its dual tranche bond, which is bring printed in conjunction with a tender offer for the company’s 2021s.

Czech investment fund PPF Group has kicked off the syndication of a €3.025bn loan, which was used to fund the acquisition of Norwegian telecoms group Telenor’s central and eastern European operations.

US beauty retailer Coty announced pricing at the wide end of guidance for its $2.45bn-equivalent of new leveraged loans on Thursday, while reaching the end of the roadshow for $2bn-equivalent of new high yield bonds.

Carmaker Fiat Chrysler Automobiles has amended its existing €6.25bn revolving credit facility to stretch out the maturity to 2023, but loans bankers are concerned about the low volumes of business to look forward to.

The IPO of Gategroup, the Swiss airline catering company, has been cancelled after market conditions led to a 'gap in valuations' between the issuer and buyers.

The pipeline of high yield deals from German real estate borrowers is finally building up after more than two years of work with underwriters and lawyers. A new €300m bond from Corestate should pave the way for more players to shift their funding from bank loans to bonds, said market participants.

Russian gold miner Nordgold and coal company Siberian Coal Energy Co (Suek) signed syndicated loans in the week leading up to Vladimir Putin’s victory in the Russian general elections.