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African mobile payment provider prepares to list, seeking large valuation
Deep breath for market as more guidance, more mandates appear
Secondary market selling of private bonds may be wreaking havoc with the primary market for public debt but the trades were still the right thing to do

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  • American expats have long looked at their low-tax paying peers with envy. While Englishmen, Frenchmen and others in Hong Kong have enjoyed a 17% maximum tax rate, those born in the US are also forced to pay taxes in their country of birth, even if they’ve been absent for decades.
  • SPDB loses investment banking head — MUFG names PF, ESG head for Oceania — Loans veteran Ooi moves to Sydney
  • China Construction Bank Co sold a $1.2bn dual-tranche green deal on Tuesday, becoming the first Chinese financial institution to sell a green dollar bond this year.
  • CSC Financial Co, better known as China Securities, raised $500m from the international bond market this week ─ generating an order book more than 12 times the size of the deal at its peak.
  • India’s Adani Ports and Special Economic Zone proved its willingness to be flexible this week, changing its planned tenor and offering a decent concession to secure demand for a $750m bond.
  • Country Garden Holdings Co, one of the biggest Chinese high yield property borrowers, returned to the bond market with a dual tranche deal on Tuesday, raising a combined $1bn from the transaction.