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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.

South African media group Naspers has finished amending and extending a $2.25bn five year loan and has added another $250m to the deal size, taking it to $2.5bn.

Alpha Bank has launched on November 11 a share sale to raise €1.66bn, as part of its €2.74bn capital strengthening plan, to address capital weakness discovered in recent EU stress tests.

Citi has formed a European cross border DCM team focused on bringing international issuers outside EMEA into European debt capital markets. The move represents a bet on the continued flow of reverse Yankee business.

Anheuser-Busch InBev, the Belgian-Brazilian brewer, submitted a final recommended offer for SABMiller on Wednesday, having raised a record $75bn loan to support the transaction.

International Bank of Qatar (IBQ) has mandated three banks to arrange a debut benchmark dollar Reg S senior bond. The deal will be eagerly watched as it will be only the second senior conventional ME bank deal since June.

National Bank of Oman has set initial price thoughts on a tier one perpetual note. Commercial Bank of Dubai’s new $400m five year senior deal, meanwhile, was down in the secondary market on Wednesday, but investors said the slide was down to wider market weakness.

Alpha Bank has launched a €1.6bn share offer, looking to build on new equity created from a debt exchange as it tries to fill a near €3bn capital hole with private funds.