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Arab Petroleum Investments Corporation (Apicorp) is embarking on investor meetings for a benchmark five year sukuk.

Bahrain’s Oil and Gas Holding Company (Noga) had taken books of $2.6bn for its debut 10 year bond on Wednesday, while bankers debated the significance of the spread over the Bahraini sovereign.

French car hire group Europcar opened the high yield bond primary market on Monday with new debt to fund the acquisition of Spanish peer Goldcar, demonstrating how little investors are worrying about the escalating crisis between Catalonia and Spain over the former's push for independence.

A $2.5bn refinancing by Reliance Industries (RIL) and its telecommunications arm, Reliance Jio Infocomm, has been opened to retail participants.

China Development Bank Financial Leasing Co priced its 5.5 and 10 year bonds inside its curve on Tuesday, amid a busy day for Asia’s primary bond market.

China Merchants Bank has named the leads on its proposed dollar additional tier one transaction, two months after receiving regulatory approval.

Three agencies launched short end dollar transactions on Tuesday, two of which managed to pull their spreads into impressively tight levels.

The European Union (EU) is set to tap an April 2031 line on Wednesday, coming on the heels of KfW five year benchmark on Tuesday, that raised €3bn.

The International Finance Corporation achieved the tightest level of the year with a $1bn five year green bond, after managing to pull in its spread 3bp from initial price thoughts to final spread.

The €549m IPO of SMCP, the French fashion group, is set to be priced at €22 a share, valuing the business at €1.57bn.

CMA CGM, the French container liner, priced its first bond issue on Tuesday after improving on its triple-C ratings. Investor demand was enough for the issuer to double the size of the deal.

Clothing manufacturer Crystal International Group has opened books for its Hong Kong IPO, with a view to raising as much as HK$4.5bn ($573.8m) from selling new stock.