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Ethypharm, the French pharmaceutical company, is holding a bank meeting today (October 26) for €285.5m of new debt to finance the acquisition of DB Ashbourne, the UK branded drugs firm.

Latin America development bank Corporación Andina de Fomento (CAF) has picked leads for a euro transaction and will hold investor calls this week.

There were no new issues in the European FIG market on Monday, but bankers are optimistic that bank capital could return this week.

Golden Meditech has closed its HK$985.70m ($127.19m) rights issue with shareholders taking up just 69% of the transaction, forcing its underwriter to absorb the remaining shares.

Wenzhou Kangning Hospital Co started to test investor appetite for its IPO of around $100m on Monday, with bookbuilding expected to kick off in early November.

China International Capital Corp (CICC) is continuing the recent run of Hong Kong IPOs counting on heavy cornerstone support from state-owned enterprises. The investment bank opened books on Monday for a HK$6.29bn ($811.61m) listing, with about half the trade already covered by SOEs.

Malaysian telecommunications company Axiata Group has mandated banks for its first Islamic bond in more than three years.

India's Religare Global Asset Management has refinanced existing loans with a fundraising of $150m.

China General Nuclear Power Corp (CGNPC) is eyeing the dollar bond market for the second time this year, having mandated banks to work on investor meetings.

VietinBank, one of the four largest state-owned commercial lenders in Vietnam, has doubled the size of its latest borrowing to $200m after fully exercising a greenshoe option.

The central bank of Laos is making its debut in the syndicated loan market for a facility of $100m-$200m, as the country seeks to diversify its funding sources.

Beijing Automotive Group (BAIC) and Rizal Commercial Banking Corp (RCBC) are venturing into the international debt market, opening books for their respective euro and dollar bonds.