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Home Credit Vietnam has put together a $80m borrowing with four banks. The deal marks the firm’s second loan in the international market.

UK bank Barclays made its first trip to the Singapore dollar market on Thursday, grabbing S$200m ($147.5m) from an opportunistic transaction.

Thailand’s state-owned energy giant PTT cashed in its stake in Star Petroleum Refining this week, using a clean-up block trade to raise Bt3.71bn ($112.2m), according to a source close to the deal.

Barclays is courting Singapore investors on Thursday for a benchmark subordinated Singapore dollar bond.

Natixis has boosted its distribution capabilities in southeast Asia by bringing in a former BNP Paribas loans banker.

Cromwell European Real Estate Investment Trust is taking another stab at a Singapore IPO after it was forced to scrap the trade in September, returning with a smaller €555.7m ($657.9m) deal.

Singapore’s green bond market cracked open a bit further on Tuesday when Canadian life insurer Manulife Financial Corp sold a S$500m ($367.5m) tier two bond, only the second green deal in the currency.

Thailand’s Gulf Energy Development Public Co has kicked off bookbuilding for a potential Bt23.9bn ($726.3m) IPO, set to be the largest listing in the country in nearly three years.

Union Bank of the Philippines is getting ready to offer international investors some variety as it sets the stage for its first dollar bond since 2004.

DBS Bank became the first covered bond issuer from Singapore to price a deal through mid-swaps on Tuesday.

Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing’s (HKEX) iron ore futures, which came to the exchange on Monday, enjoyed investor interest to the tune of 1,022 contracts during the day’s trading,

Sawit Sumbermas Sarana (SSMS), a high yield Indonesian palm oil producer, was forced to pull its debut dollar bond on Monday, failing to gain traction against a weak market backdrop.