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Southeast Asian issuers have been largely absent from a bumper crop of dollar bond supply in the region over the last few weeks. But Malaysian aluminum producer Press Metal Aluminium Holdings is planning to add a bit of spice to the market, after opening books for its debut on Monday.

Just three months after Nestlé last extended its corporate bond curve, the Swiss food group is back in the market. On Friday it pushed its range of maturities even further.

Aroundtown, the German commercial property company, raised €450m of growth capital on Thursday night in a share sale led by Goldman Sachs, Berenberg and Deutsche Bank.

Manulife US Real Estate Investment Trust has raised $208m to fund the acquisition of a Jersey City property after investors poured into its rights issue, according to a filing on Thursday.

The order books for Vincom Retail’s record-breaking IPO in Vietnam will close a day early. The D15.4tr ($677.9m) listing has already attracted heavy demand.

With asset prices inflated to levels that would have seemed impossible a few years ago, capital market participants are looking forward to the European Central Bank’s (ECB’s) eventual exit from its quantitative easing (QE) programme with a mix of hope and dread, writes Lewis McLellan.

UnitedHealth Group rescued an otherwise lacklustre week for high grade dollar bond issuance with a $4bn deal as earnings blackouts kept a lid on supply.

The Federal State of North Rhine-Westphalia came to market for its longest ever bond on Thursday, raising €1bn with a 40 year transaction in a market that “just can’t get any hotter”, according to a banker at one of the leads.

Two credit rating downgrades of Dalian Wanda Commercial Properties (DWCP) have put its offshore loans in lenders’ cross-hairs. DWCP is talking to its lenders, who have the power to force an acceleration of payments. Shruti Chaturvedi reports.

The non-US women's health unit of Israel’s Teva Pharmaceutical Industries is mulling the option of issuing its first term loans in euros to fund its buyout by private equity firm CVC.

Exotix, a research firm and investment bank has made three senior hires to expand business in frontier markets.

Italian telecoms firm Wind called on the high yield market on Wednesday, as it planned to refinance most of its debt with a dual currency five tranche offering, deploying 20 bookrunners in the process.