Asia Pacific

Gerald Keefe, Citi’s head of Asia Pacific corporate banking, is relocating to New York for a new senior position in the bank’s treasury and trade solutions (TTS) team.

Chinese hotel company Huazhu Group, previously known as China Lodging Group, has closed its borrowing of about $1bn with 13 banks.

The Development Bank of Kazakhstan (DBK) released initial price guidance for a tenge-denominated five year bond on Wednesday morning in London.

Chinese policy banks and corporations are planning to sell renminbi bonds onshore to battle the coronavirus outbreak, using the capital markets as a source of key funding during a challenging time for the financial industry.

The US Federal Reserve board has permanently banned Andrea Vella, formerly a senior executive at Goldman Sachs, from the banking industry for his role in the 1Malaysia Development (1MDB) scandal.

Pakistan’s stock exchange has called for public comment on the potential IPOs of Air Link Communications and TPL Trakker.

Asia's dollar bond market reopened on Wednesday amid volatility around the rapid spread of the novel coronavirus. But debt bankers in the region are cautiously optimistic about the state of the market.

China Bright Culture Group, an independent television producer, has got the go-ahead from Hong Kong’s stock exchange to launch its IPO.

A fall in equity markets last week reflected an automatic reaction to the possibility of a new global pandemic. But the more substantial effect of the coronavirus outbreak on equities may be reflected in economic performance, rather than the rate of contagion.

The Japan Finance Organisation for Municipalities printed the first deal from its budding green bond programme on Tuesday, impressing onlookers with a large book and aggressive price move. The trade shared the market with a social housing bond from Cassa Depositi e Prestiti.

The Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) has given the go-ahead for trading in rupee futures and options, allowing the development of offshore markets in the products.

Three substantial block trades re-opened the EMEA blocks market with a bang on Monday. The deals in French payments company Worldline, London-listed airline Wizz Air and Swiss testing laboratories company SGS totalled about $4.7bn equivalent and showed that equity capital markets have largely recovered from fears over the spread of coronavirus, which weighed on issuance volumes last week.