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The Indian IPO market burst into life this week with fresh filings from five different companies, as The Catholic Syrian Bank, Dilip Buildcon, MM Auto Industries, Navkar Corp and Prabhat Dairy line up to tap equity investors.

Japanese lender Nomura is continuing to beef up its presence in southeast Asia with the hire of Kris Panjipan as its head of international investment banking for Thailand, according to an internal memo seen by GlobalCapital Asia.

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

Formosa Plastics Group has mandated four banks to run a series of fixed income investor meetings next week ahead of a potential US dollar bond.

Shanghai Haohai Biological Technology is to start gauging investor appetite for its $200m IPO in Hong Kong next week, with books scheduled to open in mid-April.

Philippine National Bank’s (PNB) $150m three year fundraising has attracted four banks in senior syndication.

GlobalCapital anonymously polled senior bankers in the public sector bond markets to find out their perspective on the outlook for the business this year and what their key concerns and hopes are for the sovereign, supranational and agency sector in 2015.

With Latin America new issuance volumes 25% down on this time last year, bankers are hoping that Easter may give way to a strong issuance window. But the pipeline remains empty.

As the UK general election nears, investors appear to be taking a more cautious approach to equities.

Peru’s widely praised work in finding innovative structures for project bonds was taken international on Tuesday by fibre optic cable network project Red Dorsal.

This has been the busiest first quarter ever for equity capital markets globally, driven by record activity in Europe, the Middle East and Africa and a near-record output in the Americas, writes Jon Hay.

Demand for principle-at-risk products has created a growth opportunity in structured products, but the industry needs education to evolve, according to panellists at the SPA-2015 Structured Investments conference in New York.