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UNV Digital Technologies has begun gauging investor appetite for its $150m IPO in Hong Kong, as the Bain Capital-backed firm gets ready to list.

Wenzhou Kangning Hospital priced its Hong Kong IPO at the top of guidance on November 13, leaving investors breathless as they flooded the HK$681m ($88m) deal with orders worth billions of dollars.

Citi has hired former Credit Suisse banker, Jan Metzger, as its new Asia Pacific head of technology, media and telecom (TMT), according to an internal memo seen by GlobalCapital Asia.

Mahanagar Gas has filed a draft red herring prospectus with the Securities and Exchange Board of India for an IPO, with the deal expected to raise some Rp10bn ($152m) in the first quarter of next year.

Chinese technology firm Tencent Holdings has opened its $1.25bn loan into limited syndication with tight pricing on offer.

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.