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Indonesian tower company Solusi Tunas Pratama’s latest borrowing has been allocated among 20 lenders. The deal, which is to refinance what is left of a bridge it sealed with five banks in December last year, saw scalebacks of nearly 50% on bank commitments.

Akbank is set for its second ground breaking loan of 2015, with the bank readying to launch a three year deal on Tuesday.

Europcar, the French car rental company which last week filed for an IPO, began a three day roadshow on Tuesday for a €475m high yield bond issue.

Egypt has set roadshow dates for its 144A/Reg S bond.

Two European banks — Nordea and Standard Chartered — are raiding the Samurai market this week in an attempt to diversifiy their funding sources.

Wells Fargo uncovered more than €6bn of demand for a dual tranche senior unsecured transaction on Tuesday, on a busy day for a resurgent FIG primary market.

Dubai Islamic Bank finishes investor meetings on Tuesday for what is likely to be a five year senior unsecured sukuk.

HTSC pulled in a staggering $60bn in gross demand for its HK$34.72bn ($4.48bn) IPO in Hong Kong, giving the Chinese brokerage and securities house claim over the world’s second largest listing so far this year.

Oman’s Bank Sohar is in the market for a $250m debut syndicated loan and has asked Arab Banking Corp in Bahrain to arrange the deal.

Trussbridge Group has launched a new Middle East based financial services firm aimed at corporates, investors and family businesses.

Medical Properties Trust, the US real estate investment trust, on Tuesday began sounding European investors for a euro bond.

ANZ has kicked off bookbuilding for its first green bond and is aiming to raise A$500m ($389m) from a five year fixed rated note.