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Abengoa, the Spanish renewable energy and engineering firm, announced a roadshow on Monday for a green bond – the first in euros for a high yield issuer.

The National Bank of Oman has mandated banks for its debut international offering and will meet investors this week.

Burgan Bank has finally announced initial price thoughts for its debut Basel III compliant additional tier one (AT1) deal a full two weeks after meeting investors. Bankers away from the trade say it is likely that the Kuwaiti bank was put off coming sooner by Emirates NBD’s deal's poor performance in secondary markets.

China’s Datang Telecom Technology & Industry has brought to market its debut international bond in the shape of a three year dim sum. Books were seen at Rmb2bn ($325m) on Monday afternoon.

Philippine retailer SSI Group has started investor meetings for an IPO worth around Ps10.8bn ($243m), which will see the company offering a combination of primary and secondary shares.

Agile Property Holdings is looking to raise HK$2.785bn ($359m) from a one-for-five rights issue, becoming the third Chinese property developer to opt for this form of equity raising in just the past month.

Reliance Industries’ telecom arm Reliance Jio Infocomm launched its $1.5bn dual facility refinancing loan into general syndication on Friday, after cementing a mandated lead arranger and bookrunner group with 15 banks.

Hong Kong’s Chong Hing Bank managed to navigate a tight issuance window this week to tap the market with what is only the second US dollar denominated AT1 trade from an Asian lender. The $300m perpetual non call five transaction proved to be such a hit with investors that books ended up more than 16x covered, which allowed the lender to shave 25bp off its closest comparable.

Oil rig maker Honghua Group made its inaugural issue in international markets on Thursday. Having opted for the Reg S /144A format to tap into the US investor base, the Chinese company pulled in an impressive $1.4bn order book for the $200m five year non call paper.

Bank Nederlandse Gemeenten priced its first Maple bond for seven years on Wednesday. The C$250m ($228.0m) October 2019 was originally planned to be a pure Maple bond but ended up with 144A documentation after US investors wanted in on the deal.

After a summer of hand-wringing by investors over its high leverage, Bureau van Dijk has won out on its €845m loan, even managing to tighten the pricing on its euro tranche.

HSBC has hired David Long as head of equities, EMEA, to be responsible for the “global expansion of the European product”, according to a memo seen by GlobalCapital.