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Croatia’s Uljanik Plovidba has hammered out a loan refinancing that includes “significant” debt relief, throwing a lifeline to the cash-strapped ship builder.

The first two major IPOs of the autumn, Funding Circle and SIG Combibloc, have both stayed above water in trading.

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.

Metropolis Healthcare has filed a draft red herring prospectus for an IPO with the Indian markets regulator, more than two years after it first hired banks for the deal.

Sulzer sold Sfr460m ($470.6m) of Swiss franc bonds on Thursday, just months after the Swiss maker of industrial machinery raised Sfr400m across two and five years. This makes it the largest triple-B issuer of Swiss franc bonds so far this year.

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

German publishing company Bertelsmann returned to the euro corporate bond market on Tuesday to re-market a deal it had pulled in May after setting the spread. This time the issuer priced the transaction at what was seen as a more realistic spread, but the high premium was in part due to the illiquidity of the secondary curve.

Cifi Holdings Group Co added $300m to its existing 2022 bonds on Wednesday as it got ahead of the expected supply pipeline, but the real estate company was forced to pay a juicy premium for the deal.

Credit Suisse has expanded its algorithmic pricing platform to provide instantaneous, algorithmically generated prices for 1,000 high yield bonds.

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

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.

German publishing company Bertelsmann returned to the euro corporate bond market on Tuesday to remarket a deal it had pulled in May after setting the spread. This time the issuer priced the transaction, but it had to pay a much larger new issue premium than others have done on recent deals.