Mizuho

Latin American trade finance bank Bladex is understood to be monitoring potential yield levels in Japan’s Tokyo Pro-Bond market and could become the second name from the region to issue there.

Mizuho International is hiring two bankers as part of its push to build out its financial institutions debt capital markets business.

Teva, the Israeli pharmaceutical company, will hold a meeting with banks on Wednesday for the syndication of $33.75bn of loans it is using to buy generic drug business Allergan Generics.

European and US banks paid up this week as they unleashed a torrent of dollar supply amid improving market conditions.

Mizuho Financial Group has returned to the dollar bond market with a bank capital trade that priced alongside a triple-tranche senior offering. Despite launching on a day crowded with other transactions, the issuer’s safe haven status allowed it to find success.

Mizuho Financial Group and Mitsubishi UFJ Trust and Banking (MUTB) are out in the dollar bond market, releasing guidance for their respective offerings on Tuesday.

Taiwanese company Quanta Computer has selected banks to lead its latest $400m borrowing.

Electricité de France this week delivered a lesson in execution and timing as it hoovered up pent up demand for paper as corporate America skulked in earnings blackout amid perkier market conditions.

The Asia Securities Industry & Financial Markets Association (Asifma) has picked Gene Kim as its new chairman of the board of directors.

A senior member of Mizuho’s international acquisition finance team for Asia has left the bank.

Tata Chemicals has picked banks for a new £200m ($303.5m) refinancing, hitting the market after a hiatus of nearly two years.

Mizuho Bank has raised Bt3bn ($83m) from its debut in the Thai bond market, with the deal also marking the first offering under a new pan-Asian initiative designed to streamline debt issuance. The trade received a robust response from investors, and is expected to pave the way for other similar transactions.