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State-owned China Petrochemical Corp (Sinopec) raised $2bn from three dollar bonds on Monday, making a rapid comeback to the debt market.

Six Chinese real estate issuers — mostly high yield — flooded the dollar bond market on Monday with one to four year tenor deals. Investment grade rated China Vanke Co, on the other hand, tapped the longer end of the curve with a dual-tranche issuance.

The US’s Colgate Palmolive brought a €1bn dual tranche bond on Monday, in a deal that bankers reckon is the 'tip of the iceberg' of euro issuance this week.

Pharmaron Beijing Co, a Chinese pharmaceutical research and development service platform, started testing investor appetite for its IPO on Monday.

The $166.3m loan to support Blackstone Group’s Essel Propack acquisition has been oversubscribed, with 10 participants joining during general syndication.

Cerberus Capital Management has sold more than half of its stake in Bawag, the Austrian banking group, via an accelerated bookbuild.

Goldman Sachs’ co-head of China investment banking Hansong Zhu is retiring after 19 years with the bank, according to an internal memo seen by GlobalCapital Asia.

Dollar volumes proved higher than expected as the US investment grade market roared back to life following earnings blackouts, with a string of front-loaded deals ahead of the Fed’s meeting on Wednesday.

Zhenro Properties Group returned to the dollar bond market for the ninth time in 2019 on Wednesday. The real estate borrower raised $300m from what is likely to be its last deal of the year.

Germany’s Daimler and the Netherlands’ KPN were out for euro bonds on Wednesday. High grade corporate bond players kept an eagle eye on the trades to see what shape the European Central Bank’s bond buying programme would take this time round.

ESR Cayman has raised HK$12.6bn ($1.6bn) from its Hong Kong IPO after pricing the deal at the mid-point of guidance and exercising the greenshoe in full, according to a source familiar with the matter.

Shanghai Pudong Development Bank Co priced a $300m floating rate note (FRN) at just a marginal premium over the curve of the big four Chinese lenders.