Asia Pacific

The new central banks’ Network for Greening the Financial System will hold its first full scale gathering in Amsterdam on Friday, to begin its work of helping central banks and financial supervisors cope with an issue for which there is no precedent — how to keep the financial system stable when the climate is changing.

Singaporean bank DBS Group came to the market with a tier two bond on Wednesday, opting for euros as it looked to open up new sources of debt capital.

Investors showed healthy interest in a dual-tranche offering from Mizuho Financial Group on Wednesday, with the bank making only its second ever entry into the public euro bond market.

Varroc Engineering and Atria Convergence Technologies have submitted their respective draft prospectuses to list in India within the next few months.

Logistics company GLP has struck two Panda bond deals in the past week, making it the only issuer to have raised funds from both the interbank and exchange markets so far this year.

Solusi Tunas Pratama, an Indonesian telecommunications company, has launched a $577m-equivalent dual-currency loan denominated in dollars and rupiah into general syndication.

Redsun Properties Group has filed a listing application with the Hong Kong Stock Exchange through three Chinese brokerages.

The Singapore Exchange (SGX) has appointed Mark Leahy as head of fixed income, responsible for executing the bourse’s strategy for its bond trading business, including encouraging institutional participation.

South Korea’s Hanwha Life Insurance Co will meet international investors from next week ahead of a subordinated transaction. The issuer is one of many from the country that is looking to beef up its capital ratios, as the government gets ready to adopt new international accounting standards.

SK Lubricants has begun gauging investor appetite for its W1.6tr ($1.5bn) IPO in South Korea through a syndicate of seven banks.

A year after selling a $3.1bn-equivalent four-currency, six-tranche Belt and Road blockbuster, Bank of China is making a comeback with another Reg S only bond to support the initiative.

Malaysia's Qualitas Medical is marketing its S$100m ($77m) IPO in Singapore at a deep discount to other healthcare names, picking the city-state as the listing venue to highlight its regional ambitions.