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Peugeot Citroën’s joint venture in China is coming back to the ABS market on August 22 after a year-long absence. The automaker will approach investors with only one tranche, trimming from the two tranches offered on its debut. But that will not impact the size — the originator plans to triple its fund-raising with a Rmb3bn ($449.8m) offer.

China Central Depository and Clearing (CCDC) published its biannual report on China’s asset backed securitization (ABS) market on August 8. It recommended regulators loosen up liquidity, provide incentives to attract more participants, and test the waters by opening an offshore ABS market. Here’s a quick guide to what CCDC said.

Amazon will dominate US corporate bond issuance on Tuesday when it announces a multi-tranche transaction to refinance the $13.7bn financing package put in place for its acquisition of Whole Foods.

Places for People priced its debut Australian dollar transaction on August 10. The $150m five year deal was also the first by a social housing provider in Australia.

The US market is expected to dominate corporate bond issuance this week. The final new deals before Wall Street all but shuts down for its annual two week break could feature one large deal, while pricing may be affected by the ongoing war of words between the US and North Korea.

The People’s Bank of China puts preventing systemic risk as a priority in its quarterly policy report, China’s non-financial outbound direct investment (ODI) falls in the first half, and US president Donald Trump wants to start an investigation into potential Chinese violation of US intellectual property policy.

British American Tobacco’s $21bn-equivalent raid on corporate bond markets either side of the Atlantic took all the headlines this week, but while it was the only story in Europe, the US market saw plenty of other deals.

Ford Automotive Finance (China) is gearing up for its second auto loan ABS transaction of the year in China, with bookbuilding slated for August 17. The carmaker is hoping to take home Rmb4bn ($600.2m) from the deal — a larger size than its last trade.

The US investment grade corporate bond enjoyed a huge week of issuance as nine borrowers printed deals on Monday before British American Tobacco delivered $17.25bn on its own on Tuesday and plenty more came on Wednesday and Thursday. Bankers predict another heavy week to follow before supply slows for the traditional summer break.

British American Tobacco set fire to any notion that markets close in August this week with a $20.8bn bond bonanza. It brought a $17.25bn eight tranche deal on Tuesday — the second largest bond transaction of the year in the US — and followed that with a €3.6bn-equivalent four tranche dual currency deal in Europe on Wednesday. Nigel Owen reports.

After bringing the second largest bond transaction of the year in the US on Tuesday, British American Tobacco topped up its borrowing with a €3.6bn-equivalent four tranche dual currency deal on Wednesday.

BMW Automotive Finance (China) Co has tapped China’s auto loan asset-backed securities (ABS) market for the second time this year. The German carmaker bagged Rmb4bn ($595.4m) on August 8, less than a week after another foreign automaker, Nissan’s China joint venture, hit the market.