Citi

Investors gave Kyobo Life Insurance Co a warm welcome as it debuted in the market on Monday with the first dollar bond from a South Korean life insurance company.

China’s ENN Energy Holdings grabbed a $600m bond on Monday, as investors ate up the credit given its three year hiatus from the international debt market.

A relatively stable credit backdrop has encouraged a swathe of Asian issuers to tap the bond market this week, ensuring a blistering pace of issuance.

This year's lower volatility environment took a toll on Citi’s trading profit in the second quarter, with the bank also bracing itself for higher loss expectations in retail services.

Poland’s PKO Bank has named leads for its first senior unsecured trade since 2014 after having focussed its funding efforts on the covered bond market for the last few years.

Nostrum Oil & Gas hit the screens on Monday with a five year non-call two dollar note having completed its roadshow last week. But though the 8% handle on price guidance hascaught the attention of rival bankers.

SBI Life Insurance Co has filed a preliminary prospectus for its $900m IPO, which will see its two biggest shareholders sell down their stakes.

South Korea’s Kyobo Life Insurance Co opened books on its debut dollar bond on Monday — a subordinated 30 year rolling-in perpetuity non call five note.

Shareholders of India’s UTI Mutual Fund are weighing an IPO for the asset management firm nearly a decade after its attempt to list.

Nan Hai Corp is selling a bond backed by a standby letter of credit (SBLC) while ENN Energy is returning to the market after a three year hiatus. Meanwhile, waste-to-energy firm China Jinjiang Environment Holding Company (CJE) has mandated a lead for its deal.

China’s Four Seasons Education and Sichuan Hope Education Industry Group are planning to raise as much as $550m between them through IPOs in Hong Kong and the US in 2017, according to a source familiar with the matter.

One more bank has signed a facility agreement with the Employees Provident Fund of Malaysia for a £130m ($168m) financing. That takes the strength of the syndicate for the loan to three banks.