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Sunac China Holdings raised $1bn on Wednesday from a dual-tranche bond, despite a lot of market talk about the company this year. Bankers said the deal's success showed investors’ confidence in the company, but analysts argued the issuer left enough on the table to get demand.

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Canara Bank is offering investors starved of paper from India’s FIG sector something to feast on, marketing a senior five year bond on Thursday.

Indonesian and Indian corporates rushed to the debt market on Thursday, with Gajah Tunggal, Paiton Energy and Vedanta Resources all launching dollar transactions.

Exceedingly good conditions enticed Colombia to the bond markets on Wednesday for an earlier than usual second dollar issue of the year that came with a single digit new issue premium.

Axis Bank became the first Indian financial institution to offer a bond to US investors this year, sealing $500m on Tuesday and leveraging its rarity value to price inside its existing curve.

Hong Kong-listed Sunac China Holdings has set its sights on the debt market for a dual tranche dollar bond, one week after sealing a HK$4.03bn ($516.2m) top-up placement.

Anglian Water, priced a £250m eight year green bond on Monday. The size and tenor are unremarkable, and in a generation of sustainability and responsibility, a green bond should cause similarly few ripples. However, this was the first sterling-denominated green bond issued by a corporate borrower since 2015.

United Biscuits, the maker of McVitie’s biscuits and Jacob's crackers, is to sign a £725m syndicated loan facility in the coming weeks to refinance a loan taken out in 2015 to fund its acquisition by Turkey’s Yıldız Holding.

Turkey’s Coca-Cola İçecek (CCI) is set to offer investors a rare chance to buy Turkish corporate debt, and has announced its intention to raise up to $1bn from the bond markets within the next year.

HSBC has hired a senior banker from UBS to oversee credit and lending products in its private banking unit in Asia.

Handelsbanken has hired Nils Colldahl for its DCM team, as part of the bank's expansion of euro-denominated bond origination.