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Puxin and VCredit Holdings, both of which launched IPOs earlier this week, were covered on their first day of bookbuilding.

Xiaomi Corp had its listing hearing with the Hong Kong Stock Exchange on Thursday, paving the way for investor education to begin on Monday if the IPO is approved.

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Hua Medicine has filed for an IPO in Hong Kong under sponsors CLSA and Goldman Sachs, as the promised pipeline of biotechnology issuers begins to materialise following the city’s new listing rules.

Two Chinese online platform businesses will start pre-deal investor education for their Hong Kong IPOs on Thursday, according to bankers.

Guangzhou R&F Properties Co raised $200m from a tap of its existing bonds on Tuesday, opting to reopen an old deal amid a challenging market environment.

Rentenbank on Tuesday sold what Dealogic data shows is its largest ever euro benchmark, while the State of North Rhine Westphalia visited the long end of the curve.

DS Smith, the UK packaging company, has offered to buy Spanish rival Europac, with £1.65bn of financing underwritten by US banks already prepared for the transaction.

Swiss telecommunications group Salt Mobile was this week looking to replace most of its debt capital structure with Sfr2.085bn-equivalent (€1.8bn) of new bonds that have weaker covenants, as the high yield market overcomes a recent bout of eurozone volatility.

Genscript Biotech Corp, a leading life sciences service provider and drug developer, has raised HK$2.39bn ($304m) after upsizing a follow-on offering, according to a source close to the deal.

China-based VCredit Holdings, which provides online consumer finance, launched bookbuilding for its IPO on Tuesday, with proceeds of up to HK$1.58bn ($201m) in reach.

The UK government has resumed the reprivatisation of RBS, the British bank that was nationalised during the financial crisis, having launched a £2.6bn block trade.