Banks

The Kingdom of Bahrain launched a $2bn triple-tranche bond on Wednesday, the second sovereign trade from the Gulf region this year. Both trades have, somewhat unexpectedly, been done by junk-rated governments.

Robert Foster, previously European head of consumer and retail investment banking at Jefferies, has joined financial firm Baird's middle market investment bank.

China International Capital Corp (CICC) raised a larger-than-planned $1.5bn from the bond market on Tuesday in a deal driven by Asian accounts.

Apollo Hospitals Enterprise has raised around Rp11.7bn ($160m) from a qualified institutional placement, drawing a swell of demand that pushed pricing above the floor.

SK Battery America, a subsidiary of South Korea's SK Innovation Co, found outstanding response for its green dollar bond on Tuesday. The firm was able to tighten pricing by 45bp, with the notes trading even tighter in the secondary market.

Singaporean ride-hailing company Grab Holdings has boosted the size of its term loan B after receiving a strong response from the market, setting the stage for more Asian start-up firms to head to the US for financing.

Kaisa Group Holdings and BOC Aviation used swift taps to add more money to their coffers on Tuesday.

Cloopen Group Holding, a cloud-based communication provider, is planning to raise at least $100m from a US IPO of American depositary shares (ADS).

JP Morgan has made new appointments to its China-related businesses, including picking the chief executive for its majority-owned onshore securities joint venture.

Tesco has mandated banks for a debut sustainability-linked bond (SLB) from its freshly printed framework. The UK supermarket chain also joins the growing ranks of issuers taking advantage of low interest rates by launching a simultaneous liability management exercise.

Two supranationals are set to hit the market for their first dollar benchmarks of 2021 on Wednesday.

France set a new order book record with its new 50 year syndicated bond on Tuesday. Two other public sector borrowers joined the sovereign at the long of the euro curve.