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South Korea’s Daegu Bank pulled off a bold $300m bond on Wednesday, choosing to price a deal with a generous new issue premium rather than delay the sale any further.

Aster DM Healthcare is finally set to launch its Rp9.8bn ($152.7m) IPO, having once again scaled back the deal size and changed the syndicate.

A group of employees from Vincom Retail have raised Dong 4.51tr ($197.5m) after they sold a block of the company’s shares, upsizing the offer on the back of strong institutional demand.

GlobalCapital revealed the winners of its 2017 Loan Awards at its annual Loans and Leveraged Finance Awards Dinner at Gibson Hall in London on February 7. The full results are below: GlobalCapital congratulates all the winners and nominees.

Qatar National Bank has signed a $3.5bn loan with 21 international banks, showing that banks' jitters about supporting Qatari entities in the wake of the dispute between the sultanate and six other Arab states have partly been assuaged.

A buoyant January in equities markets has been followed by a difficult start to February, with the first IPOs out of a full pipeline seeing some issues in marketing just as stock markets tumble across the globe.

A pair of dollar deals on Wednesday showcased what bankers felt was a theme during a week with a volatile market backdrop, as a top tier name tightened pricing and was comfortably oversubscribed, while a second tier issuer was able to get a deal away but could not move in from price thoughts.

Israel Electric revised pricing downwards on its 10.5 year bond issue on Wednesday as it looks to push out its curve.

India’s capital markets regulator has given ICICI Securities the greenlight to hold an IPO, which is expected to raise at least Rp30bn ($467m).

Three Asian debt issuers launched dollar bonds on Wednesday, taking advantage of a respite from the market turmoil that all but shut the debt market earlier this week.

Greece, which on Monday announced its intention to sell a seven year, kept away from markets because of wide swings in European govvie spreads — a decision lauded by bankers away from the transaction. Dimitris Tsakonas, head of funding at the Greece's Public Debt Management Agency, spoke to GlobalCapital.

Public sector borrowers are reaping the benefits of investors looking to “weather the storm” of wider market volatility, said bankers, as investors poured cash into short dated dollar issues this week. Bank Nederlandse Gemeenten and Sweden are set to be the next issuers to benefit, after mandating for three year trades on Tuesday.