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Bangkok Bank has sold a chunk of its stock in Jasmine Broadband Internet Infrastructure Fund, raising Bt4.4bn ($140.7m) after boosting the size of the trade.

Cifi Holdings raised HK$2.79bn ($356.7m) in short-term financing with the sale of a sub-one year convertible bond, priced at the tight end of guidance on Thursday evening.

Export-Import Bank of India took home $1bn in a carefully crafted single-tranche deal on Thursday that reeled in US investors.

Bilibili, a popular Chinese video-streaming website for Japanese animation, is eyeing a $400m IPO in New York later this year.

Prisa, the Spanish media conglomerate that owns El País, has launched its fully underwritten €563m rights issue after it was approved by CNMV, the Spanish market regulator, on Thursday.

Iccrea Banca, the central institution of Italian credit unions and savings banks, opened books on a short dated floating rate deal on Thursday, shortly after having had its credit ratings cut to speculative grade by Fitch.

Morgan Stanley was sole bookrunner on two overnight sell-downs in Asia this week. One transaction was for its Taiwanese private equity arm in shares of CTBC Financial Holdings.

Japanese banks have a spring in their step in the Middle East as they roll out expansion plans, but, asks David Rothnie, can they take on more established Western rivals?

Chinese companies Xiamen Xiangyu Group Corp and Shimao Property Holdings each raised $500m on Tuesday, but saw different reactions to their bonds. While investors were keen on the former investment grade rated name, demand for the property industry is starting to see some pull back.

Indonesia’s Medco Energi Internasional and China’s GCL New Energy Holdings bagged $500m each from debt investors on Tuesday, showing the appeal of the commodities and renewable industries.

Morgan Stanley Formosa Holdings pulled off a NT$5.8bn ($199.3m) block trade in CTBC Financial Holdings on Monday — Taiwan’s largest accelerated share sale in four years, according to a source close to the deal.

Indonesian construction services company Wijaya Karya sealed a Rph5.4tr ($404.7m) offshore rupiah bond on Monday, a key deal in the opening up of the Komodo bond market.