Banks

Senior debt capital markets banker Pramod Shenoi joined independent research firm CreditSights at the end of last year.

Natixis has made two new hires for its Asia sponsor finance and mergers and acquisitions teams in Hong Kong.

Asian bond issuers went full speed ahead with their fundraising plans on Monday, launching new deals ahead of Chinese New Year holidays at the end of the month.

I-Mab, a China-based biopharmaceutical company, has kicked off the roadshow for its up to $111.1m Nasdaq IPO, more than two months after filing draft documents with the US regulator.

The European Investment Bank and the Inter-American Development Bank amassed strong demand from investors to kick off their funding programmes for the year on Friday, with the former receiving the biggest ever order book in the sterling supranational and agency bond market, according to the leads.

Nationwide Building Society issued the first sterling covered bond of the year on Friday, without needing to pay any premium over the tight trading levels of its existing bonds.

Vietnamese conglomerate Vingroup Joint Stock Co and its automobile subsidiary VinFast have exercised part of a greenshoe option on their joint borrowing, boosting the loan size to $525m.

Property manager Central China New Life is planning to list in Hong Kong in the first quarter, said a source familiar with the transaction.

Smoore International Holdings, a manufacturer of vaping technology, is lining up a Hong Kong IPO of more than $500m in the first quarter of 2020, according to a source familiar with the matter.

Burak Kaya is joining MUFG Turkey to lead its corporate banking activity for non-Japanese firms.

The Federal State of Lower Saxony sold the first euro public sector benchmark of 2020 with a well received 10 year deal on Thursday. Meanwhile, the European Investment Bank is keeping to tradition of beginning its benchmark funding for the year in sterling.

The end of 2019 was a bumper time for equity block trades in EMEA. After many of these accelerated trades generated strong, market-beating returns for investors, banks are hoping funds will have goodwill towards the market, supporting a strong start to 2020.