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Thailand Future Fund is due to announce a timeline for its long-delayed listing next week, as it gets ready to kick off bookbuilding in mid-October.

Embassy Office Parks Reit filed for India’s first property trust this week, pushing ahead with an IPO that has been in the works for years. The joint venture of Blackstone and its local partner will be hoping to exorcise the ghosts of infrastructure investment trusts (InvIt) past, with the pressure on for a successful outcome. John Loh reports.

Turkey’s Akbank has signed a $980m-equivalent syndicated loan, sending a wave of relief through the debt markets — though the borrower had to make significant concessions amid Turkey’s economic difficulties.

Thai energy drinks manufacturer Osotspa has launched bookbuilding for its potential Bt15.1bn ($465.1m) IPO, set to be the country's largest listing so far this year.

Ebbing support, and an already shifting management team paved the way for Christian Meissner’s departure, but he leaves an investment banking unit that is in good shape, writes David Rothnie.

NRW.Bank nipped in ahead of this week’s Federal Open Market Committee meeting to tap keen investor interest in dollars on Wednesday, pricing a deal that on-looking bankers said was flat to its curve.

Nomura has made several appointments to its flow rates trading and sales operation in Europe, the Middle East and Africa.

When UK telecoms company Vodafone announced in May that it had agreed to buy some of US rival Liberty Global’s European operations, it said it would use existing cash, €3bn of mandatorily convertible bonds and new debt, including hybrid bonds to fund the €18.4bn acquisition. On Wednesday, Vodafone sold the hybrid bonds, using four different tenors in three currencies.

Thailand Future Fund is due to announce a timeline for its long-delayed IPO next week, with bookbuilding set to kick off in mid-October.

NRW.Bank hit screens on Tuesday for its first dollar benchmark of the year, ahead of what will be a closely watched Federal Open Market Committee meeting on Wednesday.

Bain Capital is preparing to test whether sentiment towards French IPOs has improved post-summer, by floating Consolis, the concrete producer, on Euronext Paris.

General Electric’s distributed power unit began marketing a $1.8bn leveraged buyout loan. The deal has high net leverage and tight pricing guidance, two of the possible risks in the market underlined by the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) this week.