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Hydropower company China Three Gorges Corp raised €650m from its inaugural offshore green bond, pricing it inside theoretical fair value. The issuer has a natural need for euros, and its deal, unlike most notes sold in the currency by Mainland issuers, was executed in a “European style” due to strong demand, said bankers.

Greenland Holding Group Company is out with a 363 day dollar bond on Thursday, its second outing with a short tenor but its first in the public format.

HNA Group company Hainan Airlines Holding Co rolled out a 364 day bond on Thursday, becoming the second issuer to seek a short-term deal recently. Meanwhile, Chinese oilfield equipment provider Hilong Holding is selling an inaugural three year note.

Onshore and offshore RMB will stay put for the rest of 2017 as China seeks stability ahead of the country’s political transition in the autumn, said Mitul Kotecha, head of Asia FX and rates strategy at Barclays.

The Reserve Bank of Australia gave a rare endorsement by a foreign central bank of China's renminbi internationalisation strategy, acknowledging that RMB activity in the Sydney hub was picking up despite the RMBi agenda suffering a setback globally.

China Three Gorges Corp, the state-owned hydropower company, brought its first euro denominated green bond on Wednesday. The €650m seven year deal came a year after the company issued its first green bond in remnimbi.

Once troubled Chinese property developer Kaisa Group Holdings, which launched an exchange offer last week, has released minimum yields on the four sets of new fixed rate notes that will replace its outstanding variable rate senior bonds.

Domestic data in China is mostly in line with market expectations. However, mild losses in equities has prompted some receiving at the shorter end of the CNY NDIRS curve, driving a bull steepening move to the belly of the curve, writes Deirdre Yeung of Total Derivatives.

Chinese firm Essence International Financial Holdings has approached lenders for a HK$1bn ($128m) borrowing.

China Everbright Bank Hong Kong has hired Zoie Teng from Shanghai Pudong Development Bank for a newly created position.

There is a lot of market interest in One Belt One Road, but there is little understanding of how OBOR’s financing will work, said Hong Kong’s secretary for financial services and the treasury KC Chan, who reckons the city will play a key role in bridging the knowledge gap.

State-owned hydropower company China Three Gorges Corp is marketing its maiden international green bond denominated in euros. The firm raised Rmb6bn ($900m) from an onshore green outing two years ago.