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HSBC found strong demand for an eight year senior bond from its holding company on Tuesday, mirroring UBS’s recent reopener and revealing a potential opportunity for banks’ looking to issue more deeply subordinated debt.

Chr. Hansen, the Danish bioscience company, has added two non-Nordic banks to its core syndicated loan in a €700m refinancing.

Kuwait's Burgan Bank will re-engage with investors this week after first setting up an EMTN programme for a senior dollar bond in July.

The World Bank has announced the price guidance for its upcoming Mulan bond.

China’s Yestar International Holdings Company and South Korea’s Nonghyup Bank have kicked off investor meetings for their respective bond offerings.

Action in the Asia ex-Japan dollar bond market picked up a notch on Tuesday with a number of issuers launching transactions.

HSBC’s head of Hong Kong/China equity research Steven Sun said in a media briefing on Monday that the impending launch of the Shenzhen Hong Kong Stock Connect scheme is likely to trigger a huge increase in the foreign ownership of Chinese stocks.

A subsidiary of Lee & Man Paper Manufacturing has signed loans worth HK$4bn ($515.6m) to refinance debt, including bilateral loans, and for general corporate funding.

Allocations are out for the government of Sri Lanka’s $700m three year borrowing, which has more than doubled from the launch size of $300m.

HSBC is making some senior-level changes to its debt capital markets team in Asia Pacific, with current head of high yield capital markets and CMB debt origination, Wallace Lam, moving to commercial banking.

The government of Sri Lanka’s three year borrowing has turned out to be a hit, allowing it to hike the loan to $700m, beyond the $500m it was eyeing after a greenshoe.

Indonesia’s Cikarang Listrindo and Hong Kong’s Far East Consortium International have set sights on the international bond market, having appointed banks to work on their respective dollar offerings.