Mizuho

Monita Chang, a senior director in Mizuho’s debt structuring and syndication team in Hong Kong, is leaving the bank, according to a source close to the situation.

Wessex Water, the UK utility, and National Grid this week proved that there is still demand for sterling corporate paper in a post-Brexit world, with both issuers seeing chunky oversubscriptions for their trades.

Europe’s corporate bond market was teeming with life again on Thursday after a brief pause for public holidays as German pharmaceutical company Bayer and UK energy company National Grid drummed up bulging order books in euros and sterling.

Singaporean ride-hailing company Grab Holdings has added a dash of excitement to the loan market with plans to raise $750m from a new outing. Pan Yue reports.

Issuers from Greater China flooded the market with dollar deals on Tuesday, capitalising on strong appetite from investors ready to put money to work in the new year.

Europe’s investment grade corporate bond market continued its blazing start to the year on a busy Tuesday with trades coming flat to or through secondary curves, and syndicate bankers say the blistering momentum is set to last throughout January.

Standard Chartered and Crédit Agricole jumped into the long end of the yield curve on Tuesday, as the pair looked to harness the desire for long-dated dollar debt.

American insurers Metropolitan Life and Athene Holding had a busy start to the year as they tapped the sterling, euro and dollar markets to issue a quartet of funding agreement backed (FAB) securities.

Hong Kong's CK Asset Holdings made a rapid comeback to the fixed-for-life bond structure this week, raising $500m from a new outing on Tuesday.

Hong Kong’s personal loan provider, United Asia Finance, has returned to the market for its annual borrowing. It is seeking a HK$1.2bn ($154.8m) facility.

Sustainability-linked bonds (SLBs) have hogged much of the limelight in the socially responsible investment markets this year. But transition bonds, which had fallen out of favour for some time, have demonstrated there is clear demand for the product, following a strong deal for Snam this week and guidelines due for release in the coming days, writes Mike Turner.

BPCE incorporated a call option into one of its Samurai deals for the first time on Thursday, when it raised about $430m equivalent of non-preferred senior paper, including one social leg.