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Flint Group, the printing and packaging inks supplier, has allocated a €150m add on facility to the six year term loan ‘B’ it signed in May.

The Central American Bank for Economic Integration (Cabei) sold its second Swiss franc deal for the year on Monday, drawing demand from Swiss asset managers.

The Sultanate of Oman has widened the pricing of its $1bn loan by 10bp to encourage banks to lend, after the sovereign was downgraded by Standard & Poor's in November.

Santander UK has beaten a path that could be well trodden by European banks in the next two years, printing a holdco senior unsecured deal in the Tokyo Pro-Bond market as it looks to broaden its investor base for issuing loss absorbing debt.

Westpac was set to print its second foreign currency deal in as many days on Tuesday, but some bankers said the borrower ran into difficulties in euros.

Kazmunaigas (KMG) is repurchasing $3.4bn of bonds across its outstanding 2043s, 2044s, 2023s, 2025s, 2020s and 2021s.

The Singapore Exchange is closing the year with some hope thanks to BHG Retail Real Estate Investment Trust (Reit), which has raised S$255.8m ($181m) from the country’s first mainboard IPO of the year.

For Venezuelan bonds to jump as much as four points on a day that oil prices reached seven year lows on Monday was surely a sign that something special had happened. But some analysts felt that such will be the impact of Sunday’s parliamentary election in Venezuela that the bonds should have rallied even further.

A pair of Indian healthcare companies, Alkem Laboratories and Dr Lal Pathlabs, launched their respective IPOs on Tuesday and have already managed to attract plenty of investor interest.

For the third part of our annual awards, we cover Best Local Currency Bond, Best Securitization, Best High Yield Bond, Best Investment Grade Corporate Bond, Best Financial Bond, Best Sovereign Bond, Best Local Currency Bond House and Best G3 Bond House.

Huishang Bank Corp has come a step closer to launching its H-share private placement in Hong Kong, after the China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC) approved the sale on Monday.

American International Group raised HK$5.83bn ($752.26m) from an overnight share sale in PICC Property and Casualty Co on Monday, as it seized what bankers say may be the last window for such a large block before the end of the year.