UniCredit

Chemicals group ChemChina will use the proceeds of a bridge facility to support its €925m acquisition of German manufacturer KraussMaffei Group, announced on Monday.

Trafigura, the Singapore based commodity trader, launched a $4.3bn loan refinancing on Thursday as it looks to improve terms off the back of a standout year in 2015.

Telecom Italia brought the first telecoms bond deal of the year to the European market on Wednesday, tapping both high yield and investment grade investors.

Poland and Chile dived into the market this week, printing the first CEEMEA and Latin America bonds of the year.

The European Financial Stability Facility and Nederlandse Waterschapsbank on Tuesday brought euro benchmarks in five and seven year maturities. Now much more at those tenors is expected.

Investors barely charged Mediobanca and Royal Bank of Canada on Tuesday for printing new five year senior bonds.

Prosafe, which provides offshore accommodation for oil rigs, announced on Tuesday that it had negotiated changes to the terms of loans signed less than 12 months ago.

Italian property has been one of the more disappointing sectors in European equity capital markets recently, so it was a welcome change that in a still bare calendar of formally announced IPOs, two of those that have appeared are for Italian real estate investment trusts.

A bevvy of public sector borrowers are lining up euro deals for Tuesday and beyond — but some are opting to hold back price thoughts amid a cluttered and volatile backdrop.

Republic of Poland offered a healthy concession in the early pricing stages as it ventured into the markets with the first bond from CEEMEA in 2016 on Monday.

Central and Eastern European loans look set to start the year with a bang as a financing of around €2bn for Czech’s Energetický a průmyslový Holding (EPH) should close by the end of this week or early next, according to two bankers on the deal.

Borrowers who issued covered bonds this week that are eligible for the European Central Bank’s purchase programme (CBPP3) did not receive such a strong reception as those whose bonds were not eligible.