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E-commerce company Baozun has kicked off investor education for its $200m IPO on the Nasdaq, as it attempts to break the lull of Chinese names heading to the US for listings this year.

Italian construction company Società Italiana per Condotte d’Acqua aims to price its first bond, €300m of senior unsecured notes, next week.

China National Offshore Oil Corp (CNOOC) executed a triple tranche offering on April 28, making it the second time a Chinese oil and gas firm has tapped the international bond market with a multi-tranche deal in two weeks. While CNOOC received less attention than rival Sinopec, it still managed to raise an impressive $3.8bn.

Jerrold Holdings, the UK mortgage lender, priced a £100m tap of its debut high yield bond, double the £50m it initially sought, on Monday to repay some of its banking debt.

UBM Group, the UK marketing and communications company, has signed a £400m five year revolving credit facility with its core relationship banks.

Oil and gas giant China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC) opened books to a multi-tranche dollar offering on April 28 in a bid to take advantage of a buoyant primary Asian bond market.

Credit Suisse appears to have liquidity on the brain after tapping a €2.5bn floating rate note printed last month for a further €750m on Monday.

Chemours, the titanium, fluoroproducts and chemical solutions business being spun off by EI du Pont de Nemours & Co, has started a roadshow in London for a €350m bond issue, as part of a larger $2.5bn offering of senior unsecured notes.

India’s Syngene International and Nuziveedu Seeds have joined a queue of other companies eyeing an IPO on the Indian stock exchange, filing preliminary prospectuses with the regulator this week.

The Malaysian ECM market is getting ready to welcome its first sizeable IPO of the year, as Malakoff Corp decides to close books early for its MR2.74bn ($754m) listing on the back of torrential demand. The deal now expected to price at the top of guidance.

A pair of issuers were able to access sterling in size this week as European investors increasingly seek to buy in the currency.

Credit Suisse became the fifth European financial name to tap the Australian dollar market in less than a month on Thursday.