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Oil rig maker Honghua Group is looking to make a debut in international markets. The Chinese company will be kicking off investor meetings for a proposed Reg S/144A dollar offering this week.

India’s Tata Communications is to meet investors for what would be the borrower’s inaugural bond in the dollar market.

The Government of the Hong Kong SAR opened books for a landmark dollar sukuk on Wednesday, September 10, as the city seeks to establish itself as a regional Islamic financing hub.

Glencore, the Swiss-based commodities trading and mining group, successfully sold a €700m bond on Tuesday, as Europe’s corporate new issue market fell quiet after Monday’s €7.3bn fireworks.

Turkish home appliances and consumer electronics company Arcelik has launched on Tuesday the first ever sub-investment grade emerging market euro deal with no high yield covenants. The note was priced flat to the company's dollar curve and books for the €350m deal were over €900m.

HSBC has decided on a structure for the euro denominated portion of its upcoming debut additional tier one (AT1) deal. It is weighing its options on the dollar portion, according to two investors.

Delachaux, the French industrial company, has launched a €765m loan that will refinance debt and enable it to pay a dividend to shareholders.

Macquarie and Zurich Insurance kicked off what is expected to be a busy week for senior issuance on Monday as issuers looked to take advantage of positive sentiment following last week's European Central Bank meeting. Zurich was able to draw together a comfortably oversubscribed book, while Macquarie printed with only a small new issue premium compared to secondary paper.

Arcelik, a Turkish home appliances and consumer electronics company, is out with price thoughts for the first euro-denominated bond from a Turkish corporate.

The last of China’s big four asset managers is set to enter the dollar bond market as China Great Wall has mandated banks for a standby letter of credit (SBLC) backed bond.

Chinese state-owned conglomerate Citic has wound up its $1bn dual tranche loan with three banks joining during general syndication.

Hong Kong's and Shanghai’s stock exchanges and clearing houses finalised on Thursday an agreement to set up their Stock Connect mutual equity trading scheme. The pilot initiative will work alongside the successful RQFII quota programme to lay the foundation for the gradual opening of China’s capital account.