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On the face of it, last week was a glorious time for Asia’s equity capital markets. Volumes got a huge leg up thanks to a $5.5bn bond exchangeable into Alibaba Group Holdings shares while stockholders jumped at the opportunity to sell overnight blocks. But look under the hood and this spurt of activity changes little. -
Koninklijke BAM Groep, the Dutch construction company, raised €125m on Monday with a rare subordinated convertible bond issue, which becomes its only traded debt instrument.
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A highly unusual exchangeable bond won an enthusiastic reception on Thursday, as Glanbia Co-operative Society, owned by 16,000 Irish farmers, raised €100m to shield its members from volatile milk and grain prices. Jon Hay reports.
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Convertible investors in Europe gobbled up an unusually large deal on Wednesday from a Japanese issuer, Kansai Paint Co, which raised ¥100bn with a two tranche structure, of which one tranche appealed more to hedge funds and the other to outright investors.
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Kitty Leung, who worked in the loan syndication department at Rabobank in Hong Kong, has left the Dutch lender.
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India’s first convertible bond since 2014 emerged this week, with Glenmark Pharmaceuticals raising $170m from an unusual trade that had to overcome regulatory hurdles, as well as a novel structure.
