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The Republic of Albania hit screens on Tuesday to print a €500m seven year no-grow and, in the face of strong demand, was able to pull in the spread.

Petrochemicals company Saudi Basic Industries Corporation (Sabic) is in the market on Tuesday with a dual tranche dollar deal.

The Independent State of Papua New Guinea made its much anticipated debut in the international debt market on Thursday, selling a $500m bond after years of flirting with investors.

Indian property lender Aavas Financiers wrapped up a three-day offer period for its Rp17.34bn ($239.2m) IPO on Thursday with just 97% of the deal covered.

Philippine food and beverage producer and distributor Universal Robina Corp is gauging appetite among banks for a NZ$420m ($278m) loan to refinance an old borrowing used to back the acquisition of New Zealand’s Griffin’s Foods.

Corporate dollar bond issuance ended a bumper month with a whimper as borrowers fought shy either side of the Fed’s September meeting.

Gulf International Bank (GIB) has picked banks for a five year dollar benchmark, joining the stream of high quality issuance from Middle Eastern borrowers.

The chair of the influential UK Treasury select committee, Nicky Morgan, told a conference of derivatives bankers, lawyers and regulators, that despite the threat of “serious problems” for cross-border derivatives contracts in a Brexit no-deal scenario, she was “reasonably confident that a no deal scenario will not cause the whole sector to fall over”.

Chinese scooter maker Niu Technologies is planning to float on the Nasdaq for up to $150m, filing a prospectus with the US regulator on Monday.

Ganfeng Lithium is enticing investors to its HK$5.3bn ($678.9m) Hong Kong IPO by pitching it at a juicy discount of as much as 55% to its Shenzhen-traded shares.

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.

IDB Invest hit screens for a three year dollar bond on Monday, as the pipeline for the currency grew for the final quarter.