Asia Pacific

Endurance Technologies is set to raise Rp11.6bn ($173.4m) after unveiling the price range for its India IPO, which launches on Wednesday.

Banpu Power, the energy arm of Thailand’s largest coal mining group, has hit the road for a Bt13.6bn ($394m) listing.

Institutions have spent months preparing for the launch of the new IMF special drawing rights (SDR) basket on October 1 since the decision to include the RMB was made last year. The mechanics include managing divergent onshore and offshore rates, Jukka Pihlman, global head of central banks and sovereign funds, Standard Chartered, and former IMF official, told GlobalRMB.

Bank of America Merrill Lynch and Goldman Sachs are taking a knife to their Asian investment banking operations amid slower capital markets activity and as competition from Chinese lenders intensifies. This is just the latest in a series of culls in Asia as global banks struggle to find a suitable model. Shruti Chaturvedi reports.

Five banks have clubbed together to supply a $300m three year term loan to Hong Kong-listed company Sino Biopharmaceutical.

A number of Asian borrowers are choosing to prepay their syndicated loans for various reasons, including a bearish outlook on growth. Their actions are compounding the woes of loan syndications bankers, who are already battling low deal activity, writes Shruti Chaturvedi.

Honma Golf priced its Hong Kong IPO near the top of expectations on Thursday, raising HK$1.34bn ($172.7m) for the Japanese maker of premium golf clubs as long-only funds climbed onboard.

The Islamic Republic of Pakistan is returning to the international debt market for a dollar sukuk after a gap of two years.

Pilipinas Shell Petroleum Corp, the local arm of oil and gas conglomerate Royal Dutch Shell, has started sounding out investors for its upcoming Ps29.7bn ($614.9m) IPO. It is coming at a time when the country’s equities market and currency have been volatile, but early signs suggest the issuer is set to defy the challenges. Jonathan Breen reports.

An overnight share sale in India’s Kotak Mahindra Bank fetched Rp36.5bn ($545.6m) for ING Groep on Thursday, with the trade feted as one of the largest blocks in the country to price at a 0% discount.

Siong Ooi, who until recently was head of the Asia Pacific syndicated and leveraged finance unit at Bank of America Merrill Lynch (BAML), is understood to be heading to Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ (BTMU) in December, according to multiple sources.

Fullerton Healthcare Corp plans to raise up to S$270.8m ($199m) in an IPO on the Singapore Exchange, launching the deal on Thursday.