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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.

Korea South-East Power Co (Kosep) opened books for a three year dollar bullet on Wednesday, following on the momentum from other issuers in the country.

Public sector borrowers are lining up a three pronged attack on Wednesday in a dollar market that is enjoying its widest swap spreads of the year. Quebec is attempting the first 10 year dollar benchmark since the first week of the year, KfW is out in fives — a part of the curve that has also become attractive in euros — and the Inter-American Development Bank is coming at the short end.

Saudi Arabia will begin meeting investors for its debut international sukuk on Sunday. The deal is a long time coming according to those keen to see the development of the Islamic finance market.

Inovyn, the chlorvinyls firm owned by chemicals group Ineos, and French food producer Labeyrie both joined the bond-to-loan refinancing trend in the leveraged finance market this week, holding a lender call and bank meeting respectively for term loan deals of at least €500m each.

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.

Chinese property developer Yanlord Land Group is mulling increasing the size of its latest borrowing after over $1bn of commitments poured in for the $600m loan.

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.

Micro Focus, the UK legacy software firm, has launched the $5bn loan to finance its acquisition of Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s software business — the biggest new money loan in the European leveraged loan market this year.

Indonesia Eximbank and State Bank of India each secured $500m bonds on Thursday, offering investors some alternative to the Greater Chinese names that blasted into the market.

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.