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The lead banks on Keppel-KBS US Reit plan to kick off pre-deal investor education for the $500m Singapore IPO towards the second half of this week.

Asian investors have piled into Qudian’s IPO on the New York Stock Exchange, with the $825m fundraising heavily oversubscribed even before it begins roadshows in the US, said bankers.

Mapletree Logistics Trust has raised S$286.5m ($209.98m) through a preferential offering of shares, part of a dual-pronged equity fund raising plan, according to a Singapore Exchange filing.

Sea, the e-sports giant formerly known as Garena, opened the books for its $695.8m US IPO on Monday, after adding a group of southeast Asian banks as underwriters.

Banks that committed to a $250m loan for Saka Energi Indonesia, the upstream oil and gas arm of Indonesian state-owned Perusahaan Gas Negara, can expect to be scaled back after $285m of pledges came in by the end of general syndication.

The Lao People’s Democratic Republic, through the Ministry of Finance, raised Bt14bn ($420m) this week from a six-tranche bond in Thailand — its largest ever print. The sovereign also managed to push out its curve to an unprecedented 15 years, leveraging on Thai investors’ familiarity with its credit.

The People’s Bank of China sticks to its neutral monetary policy, China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC) says it wants to build first class investment banks in the domestic market, and FTSE Russell refrains from reclassifying the Chinese A-share market as a secondary emerging market.

Malaysian sovereign wealth fund Khanazah Nasional offloaded a block of Malaysia Airports Holdings' shares on Tuesday night, raising MR476.2m ($112.7m).

Chinese water treatment and recycling solution provider Citic Envirotech is readying its second international dollar bond, having mandated three to arrange a roadshow from the end of this week.

Lao People’s Democratic Republic is taking bids for a six-tranche Thai baht bond this week, and is hoping to settle the Bt14bn ($420m) transaction on Thursday.

Thailand’s TOA Paint has raised Bt12.2bn ($363.9m) from an IPO that was flooded with demand from foreign and domestic investors, driving pricing to the top of guidance.

Trafigura's Singaporean entity Trafigura Pte signed an oversubscribed $1.99bn loan on Monday with 27 banks to refinance previous facilities.