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Chinese technology firm Tencent Holdings has closed its borrowing at $2.45bn, nearly double the original launch size.

Wind turbine company Nordex signed €1.4bn in loans on Tuesday. The five bookrunners flexed to accommodate a planned acquisition, in what was intended to be a plain refinancing.

It has not been an easy year for investors. Extreme bouts of volatility have damaged sentiment. Expectations of a US rate hike have buckled nerves. It is in times like this that banks really prove their value – and the most valuable of all this year has been UBS, according to voters in Asiamoney's Brokers Poll. Matthew Thomas reports.

Asian analysts face one of the most exciting markets in the world. But they also face one of the most complex, dealing with a region that is vulnerable to macro factors while having country-specific risk factors in almost every sector. The following winners of Asiamoney's 2015 Brokers Poll proved adept at the juggling act this year.

Italian oil drilling company Saipem has revealed its bank group following the company's debut loan syndication.

Indonesian telco tower company Solusi Tunas Pratama (STP) has asked banks to relax a covenant on a loan raised in May as it anticipates future acquisitions that will change its gearing levels.

Airport Authority Hong Kong (AA) has tied up a HK$5bn ($645m) five year fundraising with a group of 21 banks that were undeterred by the sub-100bp pricing.

Standard Chartered and Lonmin will each begin a new chapter in their stories on Friday, as results are published of their rights issues, books for which closed on Thursday.

Repsol, the Spanish oil producer, issued a €600m five year 2.125% bond on Wednesday, in a torrid week for commodity markets, to finance a buyback of some Talisman Energy bonds.

Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce took advantage of a back-up in three year euro swap yields following the European Central Bank meeting last week to issue a covered bond of the same tenor.

Intesa Sanpaolo issued a €1.25bn 10 year covered bond on Wednesday, a transaction that did not initially seem to be an obvious trade, but which in the end proved very successful.

Oil services company Fugro on Thursday cut the size of its credit facilities from €775m to €500m, with one bank dropping from out of the lending group.