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Abu Dhabi investment firm Waha Capital has overcome some lenders' concerns about financing a holding company to smash through its refinancing target by signing a $750m five year loan.

Sinopec Group Overseas Development smashed records for Chinese state-owned industrials with a $5bn five tranche bond that ranks as the largest dollar deal in Asia for over 10 years, the largest bond from the country’s SOE sector and as well as the first to include floating rate notes. And it managed to price through its curve at each maturity.

Singapore’s Oversea-Chinese Banking Corp is seeking a chunky HK$38.4bn ($4.95bn) loan to fund its acquisition of Wing Hang Bank, with three lenders underwriting the whole fundraising. The large size of the debt will test market liquidity, but bankers away from the transaction reckon lenders will put their faith in the OCBC name, writes Rashmi Kumar.

International Personal Finance has completed the buyback of its 2015 Eurobonds, funded with its €300m 2021 new issue, priced on Tuesday.

China’s Dongfeng Motor Corp, which said in February that it was acquiring a 14% stake in French company Peugeot Citroën, has signed a €830m ($1.14bn) club loan to fund the acquisition, according to bankers.

The Maldives has once again hit bankers’ radars after private equity firm Blackstone sealed a $150m loan last week, refinancing the funds it took less than a year ago to buy stakes in two seaplane operators in the island nation.

First time dim sum issuer China Merchants Bank launched a three year offering on Thursday that will be capped at Rmb1bn ($162m).

China Citic Bank International is hoping to be first out of the blocks with Asia’s first US dollar denominated Basel III-compliant tier one notes, as it prepares to meet investors.

Oversea-Chinese Banking Corporation (OCBC) is looking to issue the second US dollar Basel III-compliant tier two bond from a Singaporean bank, after UOB printed a $800m bond in March.

NordLB launched a dollar denominated 10 year tier two bullet, capping off a week of mostly subordinated FIG issuance, after two senior-heavy weeks.

NordLB is out with a dollar-denominated 10 year Tier Two bullet, capping off a week of mostly subordinated FIG issuance, after two senior-heavy weeks.

Overseas-Chinese Banking Corporation is looking to issue the second US dollar Basel III-compliant tier two bond from a Singaporean bank after UOB printed a $800m bond in March.