Citi

Citi has made a handful of senior level changes to its loans and acquisition finance team in Asia Pacific, according to three internal memos seen by GlobalCapital Asia.

Bankers marketing the latest crop of IPOs from China’s technology sector got their game face on this week amid escalating fears of a trade war with the US.

Ascletis Pharma is in the market with the first biotechnology IPO in Hong Kong following the bourse’s historic change in listing rules.

World Bank on Wednesday returned following an eight month absence in dollar benchmark funding to print the tightest spread on a three year dollar deal from an SSA this year.

The San Francisco Public Utilities Commission (SFPUC) is looking for international buyers of its green bonds for the first time as it prepares a roughly $402m new issue.

India’s Housing Development Finance Corp, which is expected to wrap up senior syndication of a $750m loan soon, is gearing up for the next phase of the syndication process.

The Republic of Korea has named five banks to lead its upcoming bond issuance.

HDFC Asset Management is gunning for up to Rp28bn ($408m) from its IPO in India after setting the final price guidance for the offering.

Birla Carbon has closed a $1.2bn multi-tranche loan after attracting six participants during senior syndication, according to a banker close to the situation.

CanSino Biologics, founded by a group of Chinese vaccination industry experts from Canada, has filed for a listing in Hong Kong.

Bank Nederlandse Gemeenten on Tuesday achieved big size and a decent price with a €750m tap of a 10 year bond whose original issue had underwhelmed — leading one SSA banker to reference Hollywood by calling the reopening the “Shawshank Redemption”.

World Bank could set a new spread tight for the calendar year in the short end of the dollar market, after sending out initial price thoughts for a three year global benchmark on Tuesday.