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HSBC is leading the sale of a block in Hong Kong-listed Sinotrans worth HK$1.11bn ($143.21m), as a shareholder takes advantage of the nearly 50% run-up in its share price since end-March.

Century Sunshine Group Holdings and First Sponsor Group Limited have both mandated banks for roadshows in Singapore this week.

Central Bank of Savings Banks Finland has sold a pair of privately placed floating rate notes, returning a week after it debuted in the format.

China Aoyuan Property Group priced a $250m bond this week, proving that sentiment has improved to the point where the market is ready to embrace lower rated property developers from China.

China’s beleaguered real estate players are starting to find favour again with equity investors, with CIFI Holdings and Greenland Hong Kong Holdings raising HK$1.32bn ($170m) and HK$1.70bn, respectively, from top-up placements.

Chinese corporates will be allowed to issue Formosa bonds in Taiwan in the future, said Huang Bing Jing, deputy chief executive officer of Taipei Exchange, speaking at Euromoney's China Debt Capital Markets Summit 2015 in Beijing on Tuesday.

Beijing State-owned Assets Management (BSAM) successfully printed its first international bond on May 18 on the back of strong demand. Investors piled in to get their hands on a Beijing-linked state-owned entity.

3Sbio started gauging investor interest on Monday for its $700m IPO in Hong Kong, with bankers saying that appetite for the Chinese biotech firm is already looking strong.

Development of China's domestic bond market is a key step for the internationalisation of the renminbi, according to Gao Jian, former vice governor of China Development Bank, speaking at Euromoney's China Debt Capital Markets Summit 2015 in Beijing on Tuesday.

Chinese brokerage house HTSC was the toast of the town as it opened books on Monday, with the HK$34.72bn ($4.48bn) IPO attracting a whopping 13 cornerstone investors that included some of Asia’s tech luminaries.

Latin American bond bankers praised Itaú Unibanco on Monday for issuing the “ideal” trade to reopen dollar bond markets for Brazilian borrowers, with its $1bn senior unsecured issue.

Greece’s debt negotiations returned as a driver of European credit index trading this week, but after a rocky start the country’s own bonds froze in concert with the continuing stalemate around debt talks.