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HSBC has appointed Arsalaan Ahmed to helm its Malaysian Islamic banking operations, the bank said in a statement.

Vietnamese state-owned Hanoi Beer Alcohol and Beverage Corp (Habeco) will finally start trading on the Hanoi Stock Exchange on Friday, eight years after it went public.

Indonesian property developer Lippo Karawaci is continuing its efforts to push out its debt maturity profile with a new 10 non call five bond.

ANZ has made some 30 people redundant across its institutional banking divisions in New York, London and Asia.

International Finance Corp has made its first appearance in the Singapore dollar market in seven years. Its new treasury hub allows the supranational to give greater attention to Asian markets, the borrower’s Flora Chao told GlobalCapital Asia.

Goldman Sachs’ chairman for Asia Pacific and vice-chairman of the firm, Mark Schwartz, has decided to retire at the end of 2016, bringing an end to his 27-year tenure at the bank.

Philippine lender BDO Unibank issued its first dollar bond in four years on Monday, amid a busy day of primary issuance in Asia ex-Japan.

Julius Baer made a successful comeback to the Singapore dollar market on October 13, shrugging off concerns around the downgrade of its existing subordinated notes to raise S$325m ($235m) from an additional tier one.

MMI International has picked four banks to arrange its new 144A/Reg S deal, and is set to meet investors from next week.

JP Morgan is looking to sell its stake in its China joint venture with First Capital Securities, which began operations in 2011.

ZTO Express and Samsung BioLogics are seeing bumper responses for their jumbo IPOs in the US and South Korea respectively, as bankers expect their bookbuilds to gain even more momentum.

A five year loan for a subsidiary of Employees Provident Fund of Malaysia has entered syndication, three months after the leads were chosen.