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London-listed Ophir Energy has agreed a bridge loan to back its $205m acquisition of southeast Asian assets from Australian oil and gas company Santos.

Natixis has hired a banker to cover Nordics and the Netherlands within its debt capital markets team for financial institutions.

HSBC has hired Société Générale's Hubert Preschez as co-head of global banking in France, to start in September.

Indonesia’s Federal International Finance raised $300m from its first dollar bond on Wednesday, managing to tighten pricing marginally despite investor pushback.

Some investors are betting on UK bank debt to outperform the rest of the FIG market this year, despite the risks around the country’s departure from the European Union.

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.