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The European high yield bond market returned from its summer break to €3bn of new bond offerings this week, including notes from Delaware’s Kronos International and California’s Equinix.

The European leveraged finance market is set to contend with loan deals approaching €4bn for the start of September. Over half of that is for the German pharmaceutical firm Stada — a deal that could help make funding more expensive for everyone else, writes Victor Jimenez.

Best, a logistics firm backed by Alibaba, started pre-marketing its $1bn IPO on the New York Stock Exchange this week, as a clutch of Chinese issuers also filed listing applications in the US.

Sisram Medical launched a HK$1.4bn ($174.2m) IPO in Hong Kong this week and hedge funds have already shown their support for the deal.

India's sale of stock in energy company NTPC was meant to be the largest on record this week, worth as much as Rp138.5bn ($2.2bn). But the deal missed the mark after a muted response from retail investors.

The Indian government is off to a strong start with its biggest sell down in power producer NTPC, with the institutional portion of the Rp138.5bn ($2.2bn) trade nearly covered just half a day into bookbuilding.

Chinese e-commerce luxury products retailer Secoo Holding is gearing up for a Nasdaq IPO that will be worth around $100m.

Sisram Medical has begun sounding out investors for its $200m IPO in Hong Kong after receiving listing approval from the city’s stock exchange, said bankers on the deal.

Fintech firm Paysafe has disclosed the financial structure initial lenders have put in place before they begin marketing the all-leveraged loan funding of its acquisition by CVC and Blackstone from Old Mutual and Threadneedle.

Sisram Medical has begun sounding out investors for its $200m IPO in Hong Kong after receiving listing approval from the stock exchange, said bankers on the deal.

Bajaj Finance has set its sights on a Rp45bn ($703m) capital increase as in-demand Indian FIG issuers line up to tap equity investors.

Barbeque-Nation Hospitality has submitted a listing application to the regulator in India for a $100m-plus IPO through four bookrunners.