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Acme Solar Holdings is nearing the final stages of launching a Rp22bn ($336.7m) listing, having filed a red herring prospectus with the Securities and Exchange Board of India on Thursday.

Dollar borrowers failed to take advantage of pent-up demand and tightening spreads as US corporate bond supply recorded a lacklustre end to the month.

Heineken used the quieter end of the week in terms of issuance to price its second benchmark corporate bond issue of the year. The sixth benchmark issue of the year in Europe from a beer producer was the only deal in the market on Friday.

A wave of German and Austrian property companies is coming to the equity-linked bond market for cheap funding, writes Aidan Gregory. The attractive terms they are obtaining are partly of their own making: a reward for the companies' strong performances.

Total, the French oil company, has been a frequent issuer of euro bonds, raising €7bn in 2016 and more than €5bn in each of the two previous years. However, it waited until the last week of September to sell its first new issue in euros in 2017.

CPI Property, a big owner of real estate in central and eastern Europe, took to euros for its first international bond on Wednesday, and in doing so priced the biggest ever real estate bond from the region.

Two more public sector borrowers brought strong trades to finish a bumper week of dollar deals, both printing $1.5bn of short end dollar paper.

Nordea has hired an ex-Deutsche Bank banker as global head of debt capital markets, part of a shake-up in the firm's wholesale banking business.

JD.com has rolled out its first international syndicated loan and the $500m deal has already attracted a lot of attention from banks. The Chinese e-commerce company is loss-making but lenders are enticed by the prospects of ancillary business and an expected improvement in its financial position after the recent spin-off of JD Finance, reports Shruti Chaturvedi.

Geo Energy Resources found success on Wednesday with its second attempt to sell a debut dollar bond, after waiting two months for a receptive market window.

Vincom Retail, a subsidiary of Vietnamese conglomerate Vingroup, has started pre-deal investor education for its $600m IPO, and is working on an unusually short roadshow-to-listing schedule.

A glut of short end dollar issuance this week is set to ramp up on Thursday, after a pair of rare names in the currency mandated on Wednesday. The trades will follow a strong showing from Finnvera after the Finnish agency — also an uncommon name in dollars — printed its largest ever trade in the currency.