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Pelabuhan Indonesia II, or Pelindo II, has opened books on Thursday to what will be its debut bond in the international debt market. For the maiden outing, the Indonesian port operator has opted a 144A/Reg S dual tranche offering split between 10 and 30 year tranches.

Chilean power generation company Empresa Eléctrica Guacolda is preparing a $500m 10 year bond after completing an investor roadshow on Wednesday.

Argentine oil company YPF will price a new 10 year bond on Thursday afternoon New York time after attracting a strong book on Wednesday, according to a source close to the deal.

Jingrui Holdings has returned to the dollar bond market this week, wooing investors with generous initial pricing for a three year bond. Although secondary Asian high yield bonds didn’t take a hit from the Kaisa defaults earlier this week, bankers on the deal hope Jingrui will benefit from the post-Kaisa quiet HY market.

LatAm capital markets participants will be eagerly dialling into a Petrobras conference call at 10am New York time (3pm London) for more colour on full year results that show a R$21.587bn ($7.18bn) loss for the energy company for 2014.

Privately-owned Indonesian palm oil producer Royal Industries has extended the deadline for commitments to its $500m dual tranche fundraising again.

Philippine National Bank’s (PNB) $150m three year fundraising has wrapped up following an oversubscription. The facility attracted nine lenders during syndication.

Despite industry efforts to shift trading on swap execution facilities to electronic central limit order books, voice broking and request for quote systems still play important roles, said industry insiders on Wednesday.

Panellists at the 2015 International Swaps and Derivatives Association (ISDA) AGM lamented the lack of global central counterparty equivalence and have called for a number of legislative reviews to rectify it.

Unrated French laboratory testing company Eurofins Scientific has issued a €300m hybrid bond without a roadshow. It was the company’s fourth hybrid bond issue.

Electro Power Systems, a company that makes hydrogen-based batteries, has completed a €14.2m IPO on Euronext Paris’s compartment C. Its shares began trading on Wednesday, and rose 1.6%.

BHP Billiton priced a €2bn three part bond on Wednesday, paying up on the longest tranche. Bankers said this reflected the recent underperformance of long dated bonds.