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The Luxembourg Stock Exchange (LuxSE) has signed an agreement with the Shanghai Stock Exchange (SSE) to launch a green bond index that will provide synchronous quotes in China and Europe.

ANZ has hired Sonny Lin as the new head of markets for Taiwan, poaching him from Standard Chartered.

Brightoil Petroleum (Holdings) is marketing its maiden international bond, while Gome Electrical Appliances Holdings is taking bids for a tap of notes printed earlier this year. China Gold International Resources Corp, meanwhile, is meeting investors later this week for its second offshore outing.

The Export-Import Bank of Korea returned to DCM on Tuesday for a floating rate dollar Formosa deal, a few weeks after Kookmin Bank broke open the market for a new batch of issuers from the country.

Few would have predicted that in the year following the election of Donald Trump, which was identified by all as a catastrophe for bond markets, the CEEMEA region would record its busiest year to date. But over and above volumes, the range of products and instruments on offer, from an increasingly wide range of issuers, shows the CEEMEA bond market is maturing nicely. By Virginia Furness.

Dongying Lufang Metals Material HK has rolled out a $200m syndicated deal with two mandated lead arrangers and bookrunners. It is looking to refinance a one year loan from last year that falls due soon.

FIT Hon Teng has launched pre-deal investor education for its potential $500m Hong Kong IPO, according to a banker close to the deal.

China Reinsurance Finance Corp is looking to tap its 2022 notes issued in March.

China Securities Regulatory Commission welcomes the prospect of A-share inclusion by MSCI, China’s State Council publishes a new negative list to make foreign investment easier in free trade zones, and the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) makes its first equity investment.

Transport and tourism services provider Zhuhai Holdings Investment has returned to the syndicated loan market after two years for a HK$1.5bn ($192m) borrowing.

Industrial and Commercial Bank of China’s Hong Kong branch is marketing a floating rate Reg S transaction featuring a three and a five year, having recently raised $1.1bn from a similar deal.

Road King Infrastructure is taking bids for its dollar return on Monday, as it looks to sell its second fixed for life deal in 2017.