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  • Taiwan’s United Microelectronics Corp (UMC) made full use of a strong rally in the market and its solid credentials to set aggressive terms for a convertible bond offering a negative yield, raising $600m in the largest equity linked issue in Asia ex-Japan so far this year.
  • Taiwan’s United Microelectronics Corp raised $600m with a convertible bond on Monday May 11, in one of the biggest equity-linked deals in the country for years.
  • The Asia ex-Japan convertible bond market is finally seeing some action following a subdued start to 2015 thanks to United Microelectronics Corporation (UMC), which opened books to a $600m currency-linked CB on May 11.
  • Haniel achieved on Wednesday evening a combined sale of Metro shares and notes exchangeable into Metro shares, in an overnight deal that totalled just under €1bn and tapped heavily into Europe’s increasing trend toward negative yields.
  • Standard Chartered has relocated its former global head of equity capital markets, A Rajagopal, to India to oversee capital markets for the south Asia region. Part of his remit now includes growing the bank’s equity-linked franchise.
  • Aroundtown Property Holdings, an unlisted member of Yakir Gabay’s stable of property investment companies, has issued a €450m pre-IPO convertible, which embodies a strong pledge that the company will float within the next 12 months.