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Pork processor WH Group’s $6bn Hong Kong IPO is likely to come in April, according to a banker close to the trade.

Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ slotted a fifth tranche into its blow-out $4bn bond on Tuesday, adding a 30 year bond after US investors showed strong appetite for the longer tenor.

China’s Haichang Holdings started receiving bids for its HK$2.68bn ($346m) Hong Kong IPO on February 28 as investors were offered the opportunity to invest in what would be the first Asian theme park to list.

Beijing based iKang Healthcare Group filed for a $150m Nasdaq IPO on Monday as the list of Chinese companies looking to tap the US equities market for funding continues to grow.

Obrascón Huarte Lain, the Spanish construction and concessions group, pounced on a super-tight high yield market today to issue a €300m bond, and found demand so strong that it was able to increase it to €400m.

Some 27m ordinary shares in German property firm Deutsche Annington were sold in an overnight block trade on Tuesday evening, as the company issued new shares alongside a stock sale by the firm’s largest shareholder.

Investors have put in nearly €45bn of orders across three new additional tier one deals, in a week that has seen numerous records in the asset class broken. The activity was variously described by bankers as a “bonanza” with “no end in sight” for demand, causing both excitement and a tinge of bewilderment among market pros.

Bank of America Merrill Lynch’s James Fleming has stepped down from his role as co-head of Asia Pacific global capital markets to take up a new post running equity capital markets in the UK.

Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ inserted a fifth tranche to its blowout $4bn bond on Tuesday, adding a 30 year deal after US investors showed strong demand for the longer tenor.

Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ launched a four - possibly three - tranche dollar offering on Tuesday afternoon, after bankers pushed back announcement of the deal from this morning to first gauge the performance of Asian markets amid the mounting political crisis.

Beijing based iKang Healthcare Group filed for a $150m Nasdaq IPO on Monday as the list of Chinese companies looking to tap the US equities market for funding continues to grow.

Peter Fung, managing director and senior equity derivatives trader, and Guillaume Kaminer, director and index flow trader at Bank of America Merrill Lynch in Hong Kong, have left the firm.