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More details have emerged about veteran loans banker Ashish Sharma’s new job at HSBC.

The UK’s Octopus Investments has signed a £174m loan package to refinance a biomass and landfill gas portfolio.

India's Shriram Transport Finance Corp is tapping the loan market for a $350m five year borrowing, its first dollar-denominated fundraising.

Singapore Telecommunications and a Hangzhou local government financing vehicle both hit the dollar bond market on Monday, already putting Asia’s debt market ahead of the one dollar issuance last week. But bankers say there is little more to come.

The US corporate bond market continued at a strong pace this week, ignoring the lure of the beach that sees its European counterparts' new issue flow slow to a standstill in August. More than $22bn of bonds were sold in the first three days of the week and around half of that was raised by United Technologies Corp.

Turkey’s finance minister, Berat Albayrak, is holding an investor call at 2pm London time today. Over 5,000 participants are registered for the call and will be looking to see if the politician can bring calm to the crisis engulfing Turkish and wider emerging markets.

Chinese companies BOC Aviation and Digital China have launched offshore loans into general syndication, seeking $500m and $100m, respectively.

BOC Aviation, the aircraft leasing group under Bank of China, has launched a $500m five year borrowing into general syndication, with a group of ten banks at the helm.

Gianluca Spinetti, an associate director working in FIG and corporate DCM origination, has left HSBC.

HSBC’s head of sustainable bonds, EMEA debt capital markets, has left the bank.

Beijing Construction Engineering Group (BCEG) raised $600m from a quick transaction on Monday, following the approach of other recent Chinese issuers by relying on anchor orders to close the deal.

The currency crisis in Turkey has prompted analysts to hone in on the balance sheets of European banks, as they look for the first signs of an increase in income volatility following the introduction of the new IFRS 9 accounting standard.