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ING Life Insurance Korea launched bookbuilding for its W1.3tr ($1.2bn) IPO on Thursday, in a deal helmed by five firms.

China Petrochemical Corp has bagged the largest G3 bond from a corporate in Asia so far this year, wrapping up a $3.4bn four-tranche transaction on Wednesday, taking advantage of a favourable market window.

FMS Wertmanagement has picked four banks for a short end euro transaction, making the most of the reopening of an area of the curve that has hosted very little public sector issuance in the past year.

SR Boligkreditt has issued its first Reg S dollar covered bond, and though the book was slow to build the issuer found enough demand to ensure the deal was eligible for bank liquidity portfolios in the liquidity coverage ratio (LCR).

China Petrochemical Corp was out for a 144A/Reg S transaction on Wednesday, eyeing multiple maturities, while high yield issuer Jingrui Holdings has returned to dollars after a two year hiatus.

A pair of European borrowers debuted socially responsible investment bonds on Monday, raising a combined €1.2bn, with one able to tighten its price by several basis points.

Acetow, the cigarette filter maker Blackstone is carving out of parent Solvay, has launched €630m-equivalent of loan facilities for the buyout, four months after it was announced.

Saudi real estate company Dar Al-Arkan and Dubai property developer Damac look set to add much needed supply to the sukuk market and are lining up trades in the belly of the curve.

Nine mandated lead arrangers and bookrunners have invited lenders to join the international loan market debut of Ant Financial subsidiary, Alipay (Hong Kong) Holding. The money will partly be used to support Ant’s bid to acquire MoneyGram.

Aston Martin, the UK luxury car maker, made savings of up to 400bp on Friday as it wrapped up its latest bond refinancing bond. Investors came along for the ride but found it a bit of a squeeze.

Guotai Junan Securities Co has wrapped up its HK$16.5bn ($2.1bn) IPO, after a flood of late demand.

CK Hutchison Holdings, through CK Hutchison International (17), raised $1.8bn across two tranches on Thursday while competing with seven other issuers in the busy Asia debt market.