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Natural gas storage and transportation service provider CIMC Enric Holdings is seeking a $150m loan from the offshore market. The company has chosen one lender to arrange the fundraising, according to a banker away from the trade.

Golden Throat Holdings Group Company priced its HK$835.3m ($108m) Hong Kong IPO two cents above the lower end of guidance, taking a conservative stance on the deal after being engulfed in a torrid period of volatility in China and the city’s stock markets.

Deutsche Bank's fifth Formosa bond has firmly established it as a frequent issuer in Taiwan's RMB market, with total issuance so far of Rmb4.5bn ($733m). The bank tells GlobalRMB that it sees the market becoming a more consistent funding venue with more regular issuers in the future.

Fonterra Co-operative Group, the New Zealand-based dairy company, has debuted in Taiwan’s RMB bond market, notching up a couple of landmarks in the process.

China Overseas Land & Investment (Coli) is braving the international bond market with a euro bond on July 7 in spite of the continued volatility generated by the Greek debt crisis.

Hengtao Securities has entered the fray for a Hong Kong IPO, just as China’s domestic stock market endures its worst correction in more than two decades and shares of newly-listed Guolian Securities Co continue to slide for a second straight day.

Hong Kong and China property developer HKR International launched an HK$4.8bn ($619m) dual tranche loan into the market on Monday. Four mandated lead arrangers and bookrunners are helming the five year bullet.

Shares in Elumeo, a German company that sells jewellery online and through a television channel, closed at €24.75 today, 1% below their IPO price, despite the strong sell-off in European markets today after Greece’s referendum on Sunday.

Whether investors can look past the turmoil around Greece at a promising growth story will be tested this week, as Cellnovo attempts to complete its IPO in Paris.

A few IPOs remain in the market, although several have been pulled in the last few days — or, like that of Germany’s Deutsche Pfandbriefbank, put on hold.

As Europe's corporate bond market increasingly resigns itself to a potential early close for summer, issuers are assessing other markets they can tap for funding needs.

Equity capital markets were tense but calm on Monday. Screens went red after Greek voters rejected creditors’ bailout terms in Sunday’s referendum – but ECM specialists were relieved the sell-off wasn’t worse.