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Arab Petroleum Investments Corporation (Apicorp) is hitting the road for a benchmark sized five year dollar trade, with a deal expected as early as next week.

Chinese biotechnology firm Zai Lab is tapping equity investors for around $150m, hitting the market with a follow-on sale of American Depository Shares (ADS).

The leveraged loan pipeline for September coughed into life this week, as AkzoNobel Specialty Chemicals unveiled the first jumbo deal of the week, a €5bn loan to support its buyout by Carlyle and Singaporean government fund GIC.

Chinese integrated online healthcare provider 111 has opened books for its IPO of American Depository Shares (ADS), which is slated to raise $148.8m.

Two of the euro corporate bond market’s more frequent issuers helped fully reopen the market with a pair of dual-tranche deals immediately following the UK August bank holiday. The quality of the credits was one of the reasons the market was able to digest €6.65bn of supply on the day.

Abu Dhabi Islamic Bank (ADIB) and Al Hilal Bank (AHB) were this week roadshowing the first public dollar sukuk since April and the first public bank deals from the Gulf states since March.

There was little in the way of emerging market bond issuance this week to set the tone for the usually busy month of September. Although mBank raised €500m of four year money, CEE-focused Atrium European Real Estate had yet to appear with a deal that had been planned for Thursday.

Al Hilal Bank hit screens on Thursday to announce a roadshow for a new five year Sukuk syndication — the first in the market in five months, according to Dealogic.

Abu Dhabi Islamic Bank is roadshowing a dollar benchmark Reg S additional tier one sukuk as the call date for its outstanding tier one approaches in October.

China Conch Venture Holdings has bagged HK$3.9bn ($500m) from its debut in the equity-linked market, riding on the back of its surging share price.

Aston Martin, the UK maker of luxury cars, has launched one of the most highly anticipated London IPOs in recent years, having announced its intention to float on Wednesday morning.

mBank, a Polish financial institution, has hit the market with what will be the first euro benchmark from a CEEMEA borrower in over a month, taking what some investors believe is a cautious approach to reopening the market.