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Fixed income investors had plenty digest on Thursday with a total of seven Chinese issuers vying for attention. The majority are eyeing dollars but two names are venturing into offshore renminbi.

US metal packaging manufacturer Crown Holdings on Thursday priced a dual currency note that will refinance its loans.

GlobalCapital announces the results of its first full scale, standalone set of Sustainable and Responsible Capital Markets Awards.

WPP, the UK advertising and public relations firm, came to the sterling bond market on Wednesday for a £400m 30 year issue that included a novel choice of bookrunner.

Indiabulls Housing Finance raised Rp13.3bn ($200m) from its maiden Masala bond on Wednesday. The trade was the third public offshore rupee deal from an Indian name and more companies from different sectors are set to follow suit, reckon bankers.

Advent International and Bain Capital this week completed their second block trade of shares in Worldpay, the UK payment services provider, since its IPO in October last year, raising £987m via an accelerated bookbuild.

China South City Holdings (CSC) raked in $200m from its Tuesday bond outing in what was a busy day of issuance in Asia’s primary debt market. The competition took a toll on the deal, as demand for the high yield property name was lacklustre.

A trio of public sector borrowers are set to spray the short end of the dollar curve with deals on Wednesday, including one making its first visit in over two years, as markets priced in an ever decreasing chance of a rate rise at the next US Federal Open Market Committee meeting later this month.

Bayer and Monsanto have moved a step closer to agreeing a multi-billion dollar merger as Bayer confirmed that the two are in advanced discussions. A takeover would include the largest loan of the year of about $65bn.

Takeaway.com, the Dutch fast food delivery company, is pressing ahead with its IPO on the Amsterdam stock exchange, having filed an intention to float document on Tuesday morning.

Indiabulls Housing Finance is looking to raise a minimum of Rp10bn ($150m) from its maiden Masala bond, becoming only the third Indian corporate to seek offshore rupees in the public market.

China South City Holdings (CSC) has returned to US dollars after an absence of close to three years.