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On Wednesday, German chemicals supplier Lanxess found a surprising lack of demand for its first corporate bond issue since September 2016. Onlookers suggested this is was not a good sign with a heavy pipeline building for future weeks.

ICBC Financial Leasing broke the silence in Asia’s offshore bond market on Tuesday, returning with a popular $1.5bn dual-tranche floating rate transaction that served as a reminder of just how enthusiastic investors can get when there is the opportunity to hedge away interest risk.

India’s Reliance Jio Infocomm has launched the biggest Samurai loan from an Asian company into general syndication, as it looks to leverage on Japanese onshore liquidity.

Stanbic Bank Kenya has signed a $100m dual tranche loan as lenders prepare for more deals from sub-Saharan Africa’s financial institutions.

Export-Import Bank of Thailand is meeting investors this week ahead of a new dollar bond transaction, its first in nearly eight years.

Sweeping US tax code reforms could have a big impact on banks with intermediate holding companies in the US, perhaps forcing them to fund from the IHCs directly, rather than from their parent companies.

Turk Eximbank on Thursday* opened books on a new six year bond following the Central Bank of Turkey’s decision to hike rates by 75bp the day before.

United Asia Finance, a personal loan provider in Hong Kong, is making a quick return for a HK$1.6bn ($203m) term loan, just two months after sealing its last borrowing.

Turkey’s Vakifbank has signed a dual tranche loan totalling $1.3bn-equivalent, in line with its domestic rivals, despite Moody’s taking the axe to the bank’s ratings last month.

Beijing Enterprises Water Group (BEWG) raised $500m on Tuesday to retire a bond maturing in May, finding support from investors despite the numerous unrated state-owned options available to them.

More than €3.5bn of high yield bond deals in euros, sterling and dollars were scheduled to close this week. Although some bankers described the pipeline as “crowded”, they expected market digestion to be ‘healthy’ ahead of quieter times.

Vietnam’s Nghi Son 2 Power, which counts Japanese trading and investment conglomerate Marubeni Corp as one of its investors, has raised a $1.869bn project loan from a group of mainly Japanese lenders.