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Private equity firm Partners Group has lined up financing from three lenders to back its acquisition of business process outsourcing company SPi Global.

Eagle Cement Corp has found success with its Ps7.5bn ($150.5m) IPO, drawing in enough demand to cover the deal three times over.

Indonesia’s Agung Podomoro Land (APL) priced its maiden offshore bond on Thursday, achieving a number of firsts thanks to its leading position in the country’s property market and its strong financials.

Malaysia Airports Holdings is looking to revise covenants on a €500m loan from 2015 taken for the acquisition of Istanbul Sabiha Gökçen (ISG) International Airport.

The PBoC is rumoured to be looking into making the daily fixing more stable, MSCI says there are still questions on including A-shares in its emerging market index in June, and Vanguard sets up its first wholly foreign owned entity (WFOE) in Shanghai.

Natixis has hired former Goldman Sachs banker Ashish Jain as head of fixed income, commodities and equity derivatives sales for southeast Asia and Australia, part of an expansion of its cross-asset solutions in the region.

VietinBank, one of the largest state-owned commercial lenders in Vietnam, has returned to the loan market, just four months after tying up its last fundraising.

Standard Chartered has become the first non-Chinese bank in Singapore to close a dollar-renminbi FX forward trade via the onshore China Foreign Exchange Trade System (CFETS), the firm said in a statement on Thursday.

It has been a long time coming but Indonesia has finally regained its investment grade status from all three major ratings agencies, after S&P boosted the sovereign’s rating to BBB- from BB+ with a stable outlook on May 19.

The Asia ex-Japan G3 bond market saw a slew of issuers from a variety of backgrounds hit the market on Thursday, with borrowers from Greater China as well as Indonesia venturing offshore.

Credit Guarantee & Investment Facility (CGIF) and infrastructure consulting firm Surbana Jurong are joining up to boost the use of local currency bonds in funding greenfield infrastructure projects in southeast Asia.

Lotte Chemical Titan, the Malaysia-based arm of South Korean conglomerate Lotte Group, has fixed a ceiling price for its MR5.9bn ($1.4bn) IPO.