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Euronav, a Belgian oil tanker and storage firm, has signed a $750m secured loan, partly to buy new vessels to capitalise on a market for oil tanker services that is buoyant, despite the fall in the crude price.

Another issuer joined the corporate bond pipeline on Tuesday, as German investment company JAB Holdings hired banks for a roadshow.

Akelius Residential Property, the Swedish property group, will begin a roadshow on Monday, September 7, for its first high yield bond in euros.

Estonia's Eesti Energia is looking to print a euro denominated Reg S bond.

Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce and Toronto-Dominion Bank launched euro floaters on Tuesday morning, and bankers expect fellow North American banks to follow their lead in the next few sessions.

Russian steelmaker Evraz signed two bilateral loans this month and is in the market for a bigger syndicated deal, according to bankers, while its competitor NLMK is still in talks with banks after trying to issue a syndicated loan for two years.

Russian mining company Norilsk Nickel is undertaking series of investor update meetings in early September.

The leasing arm of Turkey’s Yapi Kredi Bank, Yapi Kredi Leasing (YKL), has signed its first loan in eight years for $106m, as its parent company kicks off a $1.2bn refinancing.

Lloyds Bank was at the head of a stack of FIG trades that hit the market on Tuesday, despite European stocks diving again on poor manufacturing data from China.

Jiangxi Jiangling Chassis Co’s IPO on the Singapore Exchange (SGX) is off the table, with the S$49m ($35m) transaction falling victim to the global sell-off in equity markets that took hold last week and saw investors running for the hills on all things China.

Saudi Electricity Co has received approval from its executive committee for a new sukuk programme and a revolving credit facility. If the firm deploys the former this year it should help breathe life into a sukuk market that has lost much of its steam after a strong start to the year.

Taiwanese leasing company Chailease International Financial Service is considering raising the size of its borrowing marginally to $130m, after six banks joined the deal during syndication.