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The Asian bond market is showing no sign of slowing down, with a flush of deals capping the end of April. This, however, is only a sign of things to come, with expectations that the buoyant activity will last until the middle of May, write Rev Hui and Narae Kim.

The excitement in the Hong Kong and China equity capital markets since the start of April is showing no signs of abating, with jumbo deals launching and being gobbled up by investors. Bankers are warming to the idea of a buoyant H-share market being the new normal, and anticipate an even more sizzling period ahead, writes Rashmi Kumar.

UK nursery and early education provider for under-fives, Busy Bee is closing books on its £210m loan on Wednesday, with lenders expecting pricing to finish tight.

FMS Wertmanagement surprised dealers on Wednesday by mandating for its first Kangaroo bond in more than three years.

Johor Corp (JCorp), a Malaysian state-owned firm, plans to list an Islamic real estate investment trust (Reit) holding MR900m ($253.22m) in assets by the third quarter of this year.

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The Export Import Bank of Korea (Kexim) has opened books on a Hong Kong dollar three year offering.

Low cost airline Norwegian Air Shuttle is set to begin meeting investors on May 4 to sell its second high yield bond.

On Tuesday, SIG Combibloc tried to slash the margin of its €2.1bn leveraged loan, which only closed in February. The packaging company wants to cut pricing by 100bp.

Garanti Bankasi of Turkey has signed the mandate letter to refinance a $1.5bn loan and confirmed that both tranches will have 367 day tenors.

Bankers are blaming a disconnect between issuers' price ambitions and market tone for the slowing of FIG issuance to a halt on Wednesday, after a lively start to the week.

Emirates NBD took advantage of a quiet CEEMEA primary market on Wednesday and opened books on a benchmark dollar deal.