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A $405m loan for Blackstone’s acquisition of Indian fintech firm Mphasis has entered general syndication, a couple of months after the borrower expanded the lending group in the senior phase.

Abu Dhabi investment firm Waha Capital has signed a $500m loan with a number of international banks from the original facility missing from the refinancing.

State-owned Indian Railway Finance Corp (IRFC) is steaming ahead with plans to issue its maiden offshore rupee-denominated bond in late September.

Dutch telecoms firm Ziggo made a bumper increase to its $1.6bn refinancing earlier this week, more than doubling the size of the loans offered and stunning some investors.

Bankers expect a slowdown in primary supply this week, as FIG issuers reflect on an unseasonably busy period for new issuance. But opportunistic trades remain possible, as spreads tighten across the sector.

A $3.5bn dual-tranche borrowing to back Tencent Holdings' acquisition of an up to 76.9% stake in Supercell has gone into general syndication.

Greenko Energy Holdings became the first Indian corporate to sell a green bond in US dollars this week, setting a benchmark for high yield names in the sector. Issuers from the south Asian country are leading a charge for green debt in Asia and more corporates are set to follow suit. Addison Gong reports.

Shell made a quick move from publishing earnings results to issuing a dual tranche bond on Wednesday, the euro market’s only investment grade corporate deal of the week.

Standard Chartered has hired Daniel Trinder from Deutsche Bank as head of regulatory reform.

Greenko Investment Company is building books for what will be India’s first dollar-denominated green bond by a corporate issuer. On the same day, BoCom HK has returned with a three year dollar floater.

Guillaume du Cheyron, head of high yield bond origination and execution for Asia, has left Deutsche Bank.

Nigeria sent out a request for proposals on Monday for a $1bn bond and has asked for responses by September 19.