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Two Chinese borrowers are in the market with Taiwan targeted loans. China Food Packaging and Phoenix Healthcare Group have recently launched borrowings, seeking a total of around $250m between them, said bankers away from the deals.

The Hong Kong IPO market was off to a busy week, with Dalian Wanda Commercial Properties and Linekong Interactive rushing to complete chunky deals before the markets break for Christmas. But the flood of activity also left one victim in its wake, as M800 chose to delay bookbuilding until January rather than compete with its rivals for investor attention.

India’s divestment plan is off to a good start, with the government offloading a 5% stake in Steel Authority of India (Sail) on December 5 to raise around Rp17.15bn ($277m) in a day-long trade that was well received by institutional and retail investors.

South Africa’s Standard Bank has signed a $700m three year term loan, while Nigeria headquartered Africa Finance Corporation looks set to close general syndication of its $300m deal by Friday.

China Tuna Industry Group has withdrawn its application to list on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange in what would have been a $150m IPO following allegations by environmental NGO Greenpeace that its fishing practices were unsustainable.

The States of Guernsey has entered the bond market for the first time, having been tempted to bring a deal by ultra low Gilt yields.

US consumer products conglomerate Spectrum Brands has tightened pricing on the €150m loan slice of a debt bundle that it will use for a planned acquisition and general corporate purposes.

A $3.2bn piece of Tata Steel’s $5.6bn multi-trancher has attracted a whopping $1.089bn in commitments during general syndication. The response follows a successful senior phase, which saw eight banks pile in.

Beijing Energy Investment Holding (BEIH) has arranged a series of meetings with fixed income investors starting this week for a dim sum bond issue.

Members of the founding families behind Indian company Infosys have raised a whopping Rp64.81bn ($1.05bn) by cashing in a chunk of their shares in the technology giant. Executed in the early hours of December 8, the deal was sold at a fixed price to investors because of some unusual challenges that had to be overcome.

German pharmaceutical company Merck issued its first hybrid bond, a €1.5bn dual tranche deal, on Monday, less than a week after Volvo issued its first piece of hybrid capital. Merck's notes carry a 2.625% coupon, a record low for corporate hybrid issuance.

Daimler-backed carmaker BAIC Motor capped a busy Monday for the Hong Kong equity capital markets and its first day of bookbuilding with a HK$12.15bn ($1.57bn) IPO that had secured enough demand from cornerstone and anchor investors to cover the book in full. Investors flocked to the listing after seeing that the company was willing to price at a decent range.