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Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ has appointed industry veteran Sanjiv Vohra as co-head of corporate banking for Asia and Oceania, luring him from Deutsche Bank.

The US investment grade corporate bond enjoyed a huge week of issuance as nine borrowers printed deals on Monday before British American Tobacco delivered $17.25bn on its own on Tuesday and plenty more came on Wednesday and Thursday. Bankers predict another heavy week to follow before supply slows for the traditional summer break.

Investor interest in the second leg of Chilean copper miner Codelco’s tender offer has been strong, with almost $1bn of bonds tendered by the early bird deadline.

The dollar market got off to a busy start in August with US telecoms heavyweights Verizon and Comcast taking home a combined $5.5bn on the back of strong demand.

The Japanese lender is adopting an originate-to-distribute model as it looks to capture a larger share of the investment banking fee wallet in EMEA and beyond, writes David Rothnie.

Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group has combined its bond and loans teams as part of a push to grow its integrated corporate and investment banking offering in Europe, the Middle East and Africa.

State Bank of India’s new $750m five year financing has been launched into syndication after a 10-strong bookrunner group funded the transaction.

AT&T racked up a monster order book on Thursday, as the US telecoms giant hit the market with a $22.5bn M&A financing.

Kroger and Alimentation Couche-Tard led a flurry of issuance by dollar borrowers to exploit red hot demand for high grade paper. With the bulk of corporate America in earnings blackout, the retailers demonstrated the strength of investor sentiment.

Indonesian consumer finance lender BFI Finance is seeking up to $150m from a three year syndicated loan, and is shaving the margin on the facility by 67bp.

One more bank has signed a facility agreement with the Employees Provident Fund of Malaysia for a £130m ($168m) financing. That takes the strength of the syndicate for the loan to three banks.

Indonesian consumer lender BFI Finance is preparing to launch a loan of about $100m into general syndication, after mandating three banks as leads.