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Chinese conglomerate Citic began marketing a dual tranche dollar bond on Thursday morning, nearly a year after its last debt sale.

The dollar market is poised to get off to a flying start to the year in the Nordic region, which hosts all three of this week's scheduled dollar borrowers.

A pair of public sector borrowers blew away the cobwebs in the sterling market on Wednesday, printing a combined £1.5bn.

Investment grade corporate bond market players only had to wait one day for the first new deals of 2018. Renault and BMW both brought new paper to market on Wednesday, selling a total of €2.75bn of bonds with little premium.

Oman became the first CEEMEA borrower to hit the screens this year with an official mandate. It has named five lead managers to arrange a triple tranche dollar bond as it looks to fund a Omr3bn ($7.8bn) budget deficit for 2018.

Chinese conglomerate Citic has named banks to lead its first dollar bond sale of the year.

Swire Properties is set to become Asia ex-Japan's first issuer of international bonds in the new year, opening books for a 10 year dollar green deal on Wednesday morning.

Ireland is set to become the first SSA borrower of 2018 to print a syndicated bond, picking banks for a benchmark deal to be sold on Wednesday. The German state of Lower Saxony will also come to market on Wednesday.

The European Investment Bank has hit screens to announce its first benchmark of 2018 — a £1bn sterling tap.

Hong Kong’s Swire Properties is gearing up to become one of the first offshore bond issuers of the year, taking feedback from the market for a potential dollar-denominated green deal.

HSBC has appointed an experienced investment banker as a vice-chairman in global banking, to help drive its UK business.

Reliance Industries has allocated its $2.49bn multi-tranche fundraising among 31 banks, with plans to transfer in the new lenders before the end of the year, said bankers close to the trade.