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  • Just four days after extending the expiry date on an exchange offer, Telecom Argentina has given up trying to persuade bondholders to swap existing 2021s for a combination of longer-dated bonds and cash.
  • Philippine conglomerate Ayala Corp raised $400m this week, after bringing fixed-for-life perpetuals back to the Asian bond market.
  • Bankers and journalists often complain about how much things have changed in Hong Kong, with long lunches and even longer nights making way for rigid meetings, PowerPoint presentations and low-fat lattes. Taipan was reminded of the old ways this week ─ and his head is still throbbing.
  • The Republic of Indonesia raised more than $2bn from a dual-currency bond sale on Wednesday, taking some of the market by surprise with its opportunistic move.
  • India’s non-banking financial companies have been under fire for the past year, after the collapse of Infrastructure Leasing & Financial Services (IL&FS) in 2018 spooked investors and dragged down the sector. But Muthoot Finance, a gold financier, proved this week that some capital-starved NBFCs can still find an audience in the international bond market. Morgan Davis reports.
  • Huawei Technologies Co, a centrepiece in the ongoing US-China trade war, bagged Rmb3bn ($425m) from its first-ever onshore bond on Wednesday. Although the issuance opens up a new and cheap funding channel for the company, it will have to return to the dollar bond market to refinance its outstanding bond soon, bankers said.