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Latvia has completed its 2018 funding programme with a €350m dual tranche deal, picking up the rest of the cash it was unable to raise in May.

The Asian follow-on and block markets saw two transactions in Chinese healthcare names this week that raised a total of $250m.

Hong Kong IPO hopefuls rushed to file their draft prospectuses with the city’s bourse this week, as the window closes for a launch before the end of the year.

Qutoutiao and 111 have launched their respective IPOs on the Nasdaq this week, while Liulishuo has headed to New York for a listing.

GlobalCapital announced the winners of its Sustainable and Responsible Capital Markets Awards 2018 in Amsterdam on Tuesday evening. This year’s two sovereign debut green finance issues, from Indonesia and Belgium, won Deals of the Year in their regions, and there were double laurels for Danone, in both the bond and loan markets.

JP Morgan has made two senior hires to for its equity capital markets team with Nick Skaff and Ismail Iraqi joining from Deutsche Bank to cover emerging markets.

Fosun Tourism Group, a subsidiary of Chinese conglomerate Fosun International, is planning to spin-off and list on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange.

Dutch brewer Heineken took advantage of a quiet market on Monday’s US Labor Day holiday to print a €1.25bn dual tranche deal with new issue premiums some participants saw in single digits.

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.