Asia Pacific
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Intesa Sanpaolo is looking to become the first ever Italian bank to sell a deal in the Tokyo Pro-Bond format, less than two weeks away from a general election in Italy which has made some investors nervous. -
Indian state-owned Canara Bank has appointed a five-strong syndicate group to run a potential Rp45bn ($695.7m) qualified institutional placement (QIP), according to a senior banker on the deal.
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Idea Cellular has raised Rp35bn ($541.8m) from a qualified institutional placement (QIP) as it prepares for a mega merger with the Indian unit of network carrier giant Vodafone.
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Indian Railway Finance Corp has approached offshore lenders for a financing of up to $250m-equivalent in Japanese yen. But the company may struggle to generate demand from maturity-shy Japanese lenders, said a banker familiar with the deal.
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India’s PNB Housing Finance is preparing to make its debut in the offshore rupee bond market and has turned to the International Finance Corp (IFC) to make sure the deal goes off without a hitch.
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Are poker skills correlated with deep insights into the financial markets? I certainly hope not.
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Flemingo Travel Retail has filed a draft red herring prospectus with India’s stock market regulator. The company plans to go public using a mix of new and existing shares.
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The Asian loan market has had to battle a tough few years, with record volumes in 2014 tailed by four straight annual declines. But loans bankers in the region have a feeling their time may have come.
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A hardening of the US attitude to Iran, tensions with Turkey and the Qatari crisis may be closing some doors for trade in the Middle East but experts are convinced it is opening others, with China's One Belt, One Road initiative pushing countries such as China, India and Russia towards the region.
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Singapore Exchange on Monday revealed that it would replace its Nifty products with suitable successors by August to ensure that investors could maintain exposure to Indian markets.
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Export-Import Bank of Korea (Kexim) is planning a return to the dollar bond market in the first half of this year, but the policy bank has reduced its overall funding target. It also went to the Swiss franc market this week.
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