Banks

Singapore-listed Keppel Real Estate Investment Trust (Reit) raised S$200m ($147.9m) from a convertible bond on Tuesday, its first tap of the equity-linked market.

Deutsche Bank has promoted Haitham Ghattas to co-head of its financing and solutions group in Asia Pacific, following Jake Gearhart’s relocation to the US.

Hong Kong’s AIA Group looked to the US market for its latest $1bn bond sale on Tuesday.

BOC Aviation sold its second dollar bond of the year on Tuesday, snapping up $750m from the sale of a 5.5 year trade, after raising $500m from a five year bullet in January.

China’s Jiuquan Iron & Steel (Group) Co, or Jisco for short, was able to find enough demand on Tuesday to cover its first international bond — a deal months in the making — raising $300m.

Geely and Dongfeng-Nissan will return to the Chinese auto loans ABS market next week with a total of Rmb7.4bn ($1.1bn) of paper. But while China’s auto loans ABS market has been dominated by auto finance companies (AFCs), Ping An Bank will soon bring the first internationally rated auto loan ABS originated by a commercial bank.

Norway’s DNB Bank on Tuesday broke a record for the tightest pricing in preferred senior format so far this year, finding strong demand for a new transaction, despite market concerns about money laundering among Nordic financial institutions.

Telecoms company Cable & Wireless returned to bond markets on Tuesday, less than a week after it tapped its senior unsecured 2027 bonds, with a new senior secured bond with a similar maturity.

Global Bank, the fifth largest bank in Panama, is looking to bond markets for the first time for two years, to finance a tender offer for a $550m bond maturing in six months.

Art Mbanefo is stepping down as chief investment officer at Barclays International and is leaving the bank.

ABB, the Swiss-Swedish machinery maker, issued an unusual bond on Tuesday: an 18 month floating rate note that grew as large as €1bn.

The strength of demand in Europe's credit markets was amply demonstrated on Tuesday when Verizon, the US telecoms company, returned for the first time since 2017 with two tranches of euro bonds and one in sterling.