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Indonesia’s Astra Sedaya Finance (ASF) is back in the offshore loan market for a new $150m borrowing, paying 20bp lower than a similar deal raised last year.

HSBC has opened a China desk in Israel to capture the growing trade and investment flows between the two countries.

China Aoyuan Property Group, Hydoo International Holding and Indonesia’s Federal International Finance wasted no time in hitting the bond market on Wednesday after the Labour Day holiday.

Export-Import Bank of Thailand is meeting investors this week ahead of a new dollar bond transaction, its first in nearly eight years.

The UK’s Lloyds Banking Group is readying a subordinated tier two bond, to be issued in Singapore dollars.

Chilean state-owned copper mining company Codelco raised $600m of 30 year money in Taiwan on Monday in the first Formosa trade from a Chilean corporate.

Bahrain’s Oil and Gas Holding Company (Nogaholding), which is 100% state owned, is looking for seven year funding.

Hong Kong-listed real estate company Agile Property Holdings launched a HK$6bn ($765m) deal to the market last week, wooing lenders with a juicy margin and all-in pricing.

Real estate developer Vinhomes has launched bookbuilding for its D31.8tr ($1.4bn) listing, set to be Vietnam’s largest equity offering to date.

Sweeping US tax code reforms could have a big impact on banks with intermediate holding companies in the US, perhaps forcing them to fund from the IHCs directly, rather than from their parent companies.

Bromford Housing Association issued its first public bond on Thursday, six years after starting its capital markets voyage with a private placement.

The Central American Bank of Economic Integration (Cabei) was back in Taiwan’s Formosa market on Friday with a renminbi-denominated bond, more than 18 months since its last renminbi-denominated issuance.