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Noble Group, a supplier of commodities, was expected to send out term sheets to its relationship banks for a borrowing of $3bn on March 6.

Nordea took to the additional tier one market on Thursday for the second time, pricing the dollar Reg S portion of a triple tranche transaction at the joint lowest coupon seen in the asset class.

German science publisher Springer Science set out pricing on a €600m-equivalent acquisition loan on Tuesday, with some existing lenders already warm to the deal.

Departures from the Singapore office of Goldman Sachs since the start of this year do not reflect a big change of strategy towards the region, according to Matthew Westerman, head of the firm’s investment bank in Asia Pacific ex-Japan. But they have nonetheless come at a time when market activity in some areas has fallen and when other firms, like CIMB, have also been cutting back.

Controversy-dogged 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB) is to update and resubmit a prospectus for the IPO of its energy arm to Securities Commission Malaysia, in one of the company’s first statements clarifying that a listing is being planned.

HKBN — Hong Kong Broadband Network — has delivered a strong boost for the city’s ECM market, pricing its HK$5.80bn ($748m) deal at the top of the range to become the largest IPO on the exchange so far this year. The absence of any sensitivity on pricing meant books were multiple times covered, making allocations very tricky and meaning that 25% of the investors went away empty handed.

German science publisher Springer Science set out pricing on its €600m-equivalent acquisition loan on Tuesday, with some existing lenders already warm to the deal.

Hong Kong Broadband Network (HKBN) is set to price its up to HK$5.80bn ($747.72m) IPO at the upper half of expectations, following a warmly-received bookbuilding process.

Asiamoney is pleased to announce the winners of the 2014 Australia Awards. After suggestions by bankers from global and domestic institutions, we weighed the most impressive deals and banks in the market last year. The decisions were not always easy, but we hope to have picked a series of winners that truly highlight the breadth of potential in Australia's capital market. It was a good year for the overall market; it was a great year for the winners below.

Abengoa, the Spanish construction and concessions company, has made a further step to capital markets rehabilitation, by issuing a $279m exchangeable bond, into shares of its affiliate Abengoa Yield.

Property developer Country Garden Holdings has made a dash for the dollar market, pricing a 5NC3 bond one day after the end of the Chinese New Year holidays. The timing worked out well for the issuer, as the lack of competing supply meant it was able to generate a more than five times covered order book to print a $900m bond.

The Italian state sold a 5.74% stake in power company Enel through a €2.2bn block trade over Wednesday night. It was very punchily underwritten and the leads were left long - but said they were happy.