Mizuho

Mizuho has added a new member to its debt syndication team for pan-Asia, with Jennifer Wang starting her new role on Monday.

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Oil India is understood to have zeroed in on three banks to arrange new debt, following a request for proposals for a $650m loan with a $200m greenshoe option.

Mizuho Securities Co and Maybank Kim Eng have formed a partnership to boost their equity brokerage businesses by offering research and trading execution services between Japan and Malaysia.

Mizuho's FIG expansion is back on track.

Pricing on a $1.5bn borrowing for Indonesian state-owned oil company Pertamina has become a talking point among loans bankers. Some believe that the loan will not have an easy time in syndication as the cost of funds at Japanese and Taiwanese lenders creeps up, writes Shruti Chaturvedi.

Mizuho has hired a former HSBC banker to head its EMEA FIG team.

One of the longest running and most painful sagas in global leveraged finance came to an end this week when high yield investors on Wednesday accepted Veritas Technologies’ €600m-equivalent secured seven year non-call three senior bond eight months after it was first launched. Victor Jimenez reports.

A $725m loan for Indonesia Eximbank has been allocated, with lenders that committed only to the shorter, three year tranche, experiencing a bigger scaleback than those that opted for the five year.

Veritas Technologies on Tuesday began marketing a €580m-equivalent secured bond, the last leg of the debt package that supports its acquisition by private equity firm Carlyle — and that investors rejected in November 2015.

Indonesia’s Pertamina is expected to launch its long awaited $1.5bn five year financing into general syndication this week, punctuating a quiet period for the southeast Asian loan market.

Orlando Faulks has been appointed head of corporate finance for Japan at Deutsche Bank starting November, as Ken Kawashima plans to go back to his previous job.