MUFG

MUFG Securities Asia has hired Shailesh Venkatraman for a newly-created position leading DCM origination for south and southeast Asia.

JP Morgan's Raj Kapadia has joined MUFG as international head of capital markets, as the firm increases its leveraged finance focus. It has also set up a new group to advise clients at the C-suite level on market and macroeconomic developments, led by Tom Joyce, a hire from Deutsche Bank.

South Korea’s Woori Bank sold its first Kangaroo bond on Thursday, raising A$400m to help fund its response to the coronavirus pandemic.

Two Middle Eastern borrowers are tapping the Asian loan market as part of a new syndication strategy, taking advantage of the slow primary supply in Asia.

Woori Bank is preparing to make its Kangaroo bond debut, choosing the market to launch its first Covid-19 response bond.

Woori Bank is set to make its Kangaroo bond debut, seeking to tap the Australian dollar market to fund its coronavirus response.

Indian conglomerate Reliance Industries has made a quick return to the loan market, raising a $1bn facility to refinance a bond maturing later this month.

BP has priced the largest corporate bond buy-back ever conducted in Europe, acquiring $4bn worth of eight euro and sterling bonds, as it deploys the cash it hauled in with its $12bn hybrid capital issue in June.

Commodities company Mercuria has returned for its annual borrowing of $980m. This time, it is enticing banks with a 10bp Covid-19 premium on the loan margin and fees.

MUFG Bank has hired Hoang Thi Tuong Khanh as director and head of global corporate banking for Vietnam.

Indonesian company Sarana Multi Infrastruktur (SMI) has increased the size of its loan to $700m after seeing strong traction from banks during syndication.

Singaporean commodities company Mercuria has returned to the offshore loan market for its annual foray.