Morgan Stanley

Former Barclays banker Hardik Dalal started in a newly created executive director position at MUFG Securities Asia on Monday.

China Great Wall Asset Management stumbled into secondary trading late on Friday after its new dollar deal hit delays due to confusion over coupon payment dates.

Royal Dynasty International Holding Co, a leading Chinese restaurant chain manager which counts Morgan Stanley among its largest shareholders, is planning to list in Hong Kong.

Korea’s Kookmin Bank is eyeing a return to the dollar bond market, meeting with investors this week to gauge interest in a senior deal.

The UK Debt Management Office has selected the banks that will run its next syndication.

MUFG said on Thursday that it had hired former HSBC banker Jeff Bennett as head of leveraged corporate origination and structuring, part of the bank’s longer term expansion of its leveraged finance and investment banking businesses in EMEA.

Six corporate investment grade borrowers took home a combined $3.75bn as the US dollar market finally took a breather for the summer after the breakneck pace of issuance for the month so far.

Two deals were priced this week in the European corporate bond market, and next week already looks busier. With a roadshow under way and four others coming up, the window before September’s European Central Bank meeting looks full.

Dongfeng Peugeot Citroën Auto Finance sealed a single tranche Rmb3bn ($451m) ABS deal on August 22, just five days after Bond Connect investors tapped the asset class for the first time. But the originator showed little interest in seducing the newcomers and stuck with the local investor base instead.

HDFC Standard Life Insurance Co is planning an offer-for-sale of secondary shares. The deal could be worth Rp100bn ($1.56bn) and is likely to hit the market in 2017, according to a banker working on it.

China Great Wall Asset Management attempted to reopen the Asian dollar debt market on Thursday with a triple tranche offering after a typhoon shutdown the market on Wednesday.

A lack of supply in the summer months has helped to extend an already impressive rally in the bank bond market, leaving cash-rich investors hungry for a wave of new supply.