Asia Pacific
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Hong Kong-based Bank of China Group Investment has broken a year-long absence from the Panda bond market, pricing a three year deal this week for refinancing. -
China Oil and Gas Group’s $400m bond proved popular with investors this week as it offered the high yield market an alternative to property deals from the country.
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Hong Kong's CK Asset Holdings, previously known as Cheung Kong Property Holdings, marketed a dual tranche deal worth $600m on Wednesday.
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Chinese property company Leading Holdings Group has made its debut in the dollar market with a sub-one year bond.
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Ahead of what is expected to be a long, dry summer in the primary covered bond market, Korean Housing Finance Corporation (KHFC) and Caffil were out on Wednesday with €1bn new issues.
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Singapore-based agriculture company Olam International is tapping shareholders through a rights issue, to raise S$601.7m ($447.2m) to repay debt from a recent acquisition.
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China’s Tongyi Lubricant, which is backed by private equity firm Carlyle Group, has tapped three Taiwanese banks to help it raise $110m from the loan market for a dividend recapitalisation.
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Dingdong (Cayman), a Chinese e-commerce company for fresh groceries, and its rival Missfresh are testing investor appetite at the same time for their US IPOs.
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The Export-Import Bank of Korea (Kexim) sold the first public 20 year dollar bond from a FIG issuer from the country this week — potentially paving the way for other borrowers to also opt for the same tenor. Morgan Davis reports.
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Indian software services provider Coforge, previously known as NIIT Technologies, is seeking a loan to fund a dividend recapitalisation, joining a growing list of companies raising debt to pay a special dividend to shareholders.
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ANZ has appointed Niro Somasekeran as head of corporate finance for south and southeast Asia.
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The green dim sum bond market saw a small jump in action on Tuesday, with high yield issuer Zhenro Properties Group selling a short-dated deal and German development bank KfW reopening one of its existing notes.
