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The volume of new equity-linked deals in Europe is down significantly this year compared with the same period in 2017, but market participants hope for a recovery when the ECB starts raising rates.

Chinese industrial name Fufeng Group raised $350m from a bond on Tuesday, offering a coupon step-up to show its commitment to maintaining its investment grade rating from S&P. Logan Property Holdings Co also separately bagged $300m on the same day.

The pipeline of Asian IPOs headed for the US is shaping up for September, with the latest crop of issuers all starting to drum up investor interest.

India's Shriram Transport Finance Corp is tapping the loan market for a $350m five year borrowing, its first dollar-denominated fundraising.

Tencent Holdings-backed Qutoutiao has filed draft documents for a Nasdaq IPO, with plans to raise up to $300m.

The US corporate bond market continued at a strong pace this week, ignoring the lure of the beach that sees its European counterparts' new issue flow slow to a standstill in August. More than $22bn of bonds were sold in the first three days of the week and around half of that was raised by United Technologies Corp.

Turkey’s finance minister, Berat Albayrak, is holding an investor call at 2pm London time today. Over 5,000 participants are registered for the call and will be looking to see if the politician can bring calm to the crisis engulfing Turkish and wider emerging markets.

China’s answer to Tesla is set to make a splash with its New York IPO. Nio is preparing a multibillion-dollar listing that will test investor appetite for the booming electric car industry. John Loh reports.

Asia’s offshore bond market has ground to a halt. Global market volatility, driven by in part by geopolitical risk, has left borrowers on the sidelines, waiting for what will they hope will be a more stable market in September. In the meantime, the only sign of resilience in the region comes from China, where local banks can be leaned on to anchor deals. Morgan Davis reports.

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A note by law firm Mayer Brown has advised counterparties trading with International Swaps and Derivatives Association (ISDA) documentation to consider special amendments if they want their contracts to take into account the effects of negative interest rates, referencing a recent court decision.

Iron ore firm Ferrexpo has more than doubled the size of its revolving pre export finance facility to $400m and has extended the maturity by an extra year, but lenders say Ukraine’s loan market remains only partially open.