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Maile Carnegie has been appointed to the role of group executive digital banking at Australia and New Zealand Bank, according to a press release.

A $925m refinancing for Birla Carbon has received commitments from eight banks, taking the total number of incoming lenders to 10. The loan, which has been in syndication for three months, is likely to be allocated in early March.

Deutsche Bank has made a series of senior changes to its debt and loan teams in Asia, which will see Haitham Ghattas, the new head of debt origination for Asia, take charge of four origination units.

State Bank of India has picked banks for a fresh $500m fundraising that is expected to launch into syndication in the next couple of weeks.

Australia and New Zealand Bank has appointed David Green as the new chief executive officer for Singapore, replacing Vishnu Shahaney, who is taking up a new role at the bank.

Tata Steel has received a new commitment at the senior level for its $1.5bn refinancing, with banks yet to join in general syndication.

A $1.775bn loan for ONGC Videsh, the international arm of India’s Oil and Natural Gas Corp, has attracted commitments from just two lenders in syndication, with the deal due to close by the end of this week.

Eddie Listorti, global co-head of fixed income, currencies and commodities at Australia and New Zealand Bank, has stepped down to set up his own commodities-focused fund, according to an internal memo obtained by GlobalCapital Asia.

One more bank has joined the top group for a loan for Tata Power subsidiary Bhira Investments. The borrower had initially shortlisted six lenders for the facility to refinance a $460m loan it wrapped up in October 2014.

Markets were sceptical when the People’s Bank of China (PBoC) first launched an official RMB foreign exchange (FX) index, based on a trade-weighted basket of 13 currencies. Nearly two months later, experts are starting to give some credibility to the basket and are even proposing making it a more official part of China’s FX policy.

ANZ New Zealand this week became the latest in a slew of Antipodean financial institutions to print Swiss franc denominated debt.

South Korea’s Kookmin Bank issued its second ever covered bond this week, raising $500m from a five year note that was more or less a replica of its debut transaction.