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Hong Kong and China property developer HKR International launched an HK$4.8bn ($619m) dual tranche loan into the market on Monday. Four mandated lead arrangers and bookrunners are helming the five year bullet.

Indian mortgage lender Housing Development Finance Corp is wrapping up a $500m club loan with a group of five banks. The borrowing comes close on the heels of a $300m pre-funded four year facility for HDFC that launched into general only in May.

MUFG has hired two former RBS bankers to bolster its Hong Kong-based debt capital markets business, GlobalCapital Asia understands.

Atos, the French IT services and outsourcing company, added to an already packed corporate bond pipeline on Wednesday, hiring banks to arrange a roadshow beginning next week, for its first ever bond.

MUFG has named Ryosei Hayashi as head of rates trading and sales for Asia at the financial group’s subsidiary, Mitsubishi UFJ Securities, in Hong Kong. The MUFG group veteran has over 20 years of experience of working with rates and derivative products.

Dairy company Fonterra Cooperative Group has priced its third dim sum offering, bringing in Rmb1bn ($161m) to support its expanding business in China.

New Zealand dairy company, Fonterra Cooperative Group, opened books to its third dim sum bond on Monday. The deal comes amid a recent revival in offshore renminbi bond issuance but a dearth of international corporates names.

Mashreq Bank placed its first ever note in yen on Wednesday, marking a growing demand for Middle Eastern paper in the currency.

Apple smashed the record for largest corporate yen bond from an international issuer with its debut on Thursday, but other borrowers are unlikely to leap on the obvious demand, writes Nathan Collins

Investors piled into the first offshore renminbi bond from Lenovo Group, keen to get their hands on some rare corporate supply. The strong response allowed the borrower to upsize the five year offering to Rmb4bn ($645m), equalling the record for the largest corporate dim sum bond.

Quanta Computer subsidiary Quanta International, which launched a dual tranche borrowing into general in March, has signed the facility at an increased size of $900m after fully exercising a greenshoe option.

Corporate bond issuers hung back from issuing in euros on Monday, as markets made a soft opening. But the pipeline continued to fill and issuers like Eurogrid and Mohawk Industries are in the offing.