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

Chinese mobile content aggregator Qutoutiao has hit the play button on its US IPO, targeting $144m from an offering of American Depository Shares (ADS).

Swiss healthcare company Roche took advantage of upcoming redemptions and a new investor base following its rating upgrade by Moody’s, to raise CHF900m ($922m) from a dual tranche offering.

Telecom infrastructure firm Circet Odyssee has joined the early September pipeline of deals in the euro leveraged loans market with a small tap. It will fund the buyout of Irish peer KN Group, with parent company Advent planning to merge the companies.

CPE Greenery has bagged HK$788.1m ($100.4m) after trimming its stake in Chinese drug maker Luye Pharma, according to a source close to the deal.

Meituan Dianping, one of China’s hottest technology unicorns, has launched bookbuilding for its up to HK$34.6bn ($4.4bn) Hong Kong IPO.

Biotechnology firm Hua Medicine has launched bookbuilding for its Hong Kong IPO, targeting up to HK$972.1m ($123.9m) in proceeds.

There was little in the way of emerging market bond issuance this week to set the tone for the usually busy month of September. Although mBank raised €500m of four year money, CEE-focused Atrium European Real Estate had yet to appear with a deal that had been planned for Thursday.

First Abu Dhabi Bank (FADB) appeared in the Swiss franc market on Thursday, selling five year bonds in an arbitrage driven transaction.

China Aoyuan Property Group was back in the offshore market on Wednesday for the fourth time in as many months, using a dual-currency transaction to settle the last $300m of its fundraising quota.

mBank, a Polish financial institution, has hit the market with what will be the first euro benchmark from a CEEMEA borrower in over a month, taking what some investors believe is a cautious approach to reopening the market.

A recent ratings outlook upgrade for Hong Kong developer Nan Fung International Holdings gave it a fillip, helping it raise $500m from a 10 year bond issuance on Tuesday.