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National Australia Bank printed a €750m seven year covered bond on Monday. But the deal didn’t fly off the shelf, even though it offered a substantial premium to other Australian covered bonds. The lack of European Central Bank repo eligibility and slackening demand in the seven year area was blamed.

Bank of Georgia completed the IPO of its healthcare subsidiary on Monday, as it successfully priced the deal, although at a price much below what it had hoped for.

Citi has formed a European cross border debt capital markets team focused on bringing international issuers outside EMEA into European bond markets. This reflects a belief at the bank that there will continue to be an increase of funding in euros by non-European issuers, said Will Weaver, head of DCM at Citi in London.

Anheuser-Busch InBev, the Belgian-Brazilian brewer, mandated a group of 21 banks to provide its $75bn loan facility, but there was no coordinator as AB InBev took an active role in arranging the transaction.

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ICBC New York returned to the dollar bond market one year after its debut with a $1bn dual-tranche offering on November 5. While the deal was popular with Asian accounts, interest from the US was lukewarm because of the issuer’s aggressive pricing tactic.

CEEMEA bond watchers rarely agree on Middle East perpetual pricing and National Bank of Oman (NBO) was no exception. Rival bankers and investors gave a range of estimates as to how much NBO was paying up for its debut additional tier one (AT1) transaction.

Julius Baer became the first foreign bank to issue a Singapore dollar-denominated additional tier one (AT1) this week. By doing so, the Swiss lender has joined a growing number of banks that are satisfying their capital needs through the country’s bond market, writes Rev Hui.

Bank of East Asia (BEA) has proposed to buy back its outstanding Basel III additional tier one notes for cash and plans to issue a new offering as part of the lender’s liability management practice.

Wenzhou Kangning Hospital started guiding investors to the top of the range of its HK$681m ($88m) Hong Kong IPO on Thursday morning, thanks to books being oversubscribed across the price range.

Iris World Enterprises, an affiliate of Taiwan's Foxconn Technology Group, has picked three banks for its $300m borrowing.

Standard Chartered’s former head of debt capital markets for Hong Kong, Peter Szekely, has moved to a new position at Australia and New Zealand Bank.