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  • China Kepei Education will launch investor education for its Hong Kong IPO next week, according to a source close to the transaction.
  • The central bank of Laos is seeking a $100m loan through Taipei Fubon Bank, while simultaneously syndicating another deal of the same size via Cathay United Bank.
  • China Everbright Greentech, an environmental protection service provider under China Everbright International, is testing lenders’ appetite for a HK$800m ($102m) syndicated loan.
  • No Latin American borrowers dared to announce bond plans in the short first working week of 2019, but a flurry of pre-Christmas requests for proposals and the prospect of habitual January issuers tapping was enough to make syndicate bankers chirpier.
  • El Salvador’s Congress has approved the issuance of new external debt to enable it to refinance debt due later this year. That will mean one fewer headaches for whoever wins next month’s presidential elections.
  • SSA
    A year and a half of costly insurance losses from the disasters such as the 2017 US hurricanes and last year’s wildfires in California are grinding down investors in catastrophe bonds and other insurance-linked securities. That raises questions over the direction of a market that has experienced consistent growth up to now, writes Jasper Cox.