Mizuho

China and Japan confirm details of currency swaps and plans to invest more in third party markets, the Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) renews the license of nine authorised institutions as Primary Liquidity Providers (PLPs) for the CNH market in Hong Kong and Singapore sets up new government agency to bridge the funding gap facing Asia’s infrastructure projects.

Mizuho International said this week that LSE Group’s Suneel Bakhshi will take over as president and chief executive, with Michiel de Jong stepping down after six years in the role.

Korean Air Lines (KAL) closed a $350m secured deal on Tuesday backed by future ticket sales between the US and South Korea, executing the drive-by trade using a credit facility from Shinhan Bank.

An A$500m ($355m) Kangaroo bond from the Export-Import Bank of Korea on Tuesday reaffirmed Australian dollar investors’ appetite for high quality credits from South Korea, amid a fall in global issuance volume in the currency this year.

Mizuho has hired an equity-linked banker from Deutsche Bank for its equity capital markets business in London.

Industrial and Commercial Bank of China’s London branch priced its dual-tranche floating rate notes (FRNs) at the expected levels on Thursday, but issuers in the pipeline may have a hard time to pull off the same feat.

Conagra Brands tucked away a $7bn bond deal just days after market volatility forced it to postpone the trade.

Kookmin Bank issued the first sustainability bond from a South Korean financial institution on Tuesday, raising $300m from a deal that was covered more than six times.

The People’s Republic of China, acting through its Ministry of Finance (MoF), priced a $3bn return to the international bond market, pushing out its maturity profile to 30 years. But a weaker backdrop meant that the order book was not as strong as its dollar trade last year.

Conagra Brands became the biggest high-grade casualty of market volatility when it pulled a multi-billion M&A financing on Thursday.

With its latest dollar bond, China's Ministry of Finance may have demonstrated the sovereign’s market access and its credit strength even in a hostile trade environment, but a potential repricing of the China state-owned enterprises (SOEs) curve still seems unlikely, writes Addison Gong.

Gulf International Bank has cancelled a five year dollar bond that it began roadshowing at the end of September.