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Goldman Sachs placed HK$5.43bn ($700m) worth of borrowed stock in China Pacific Insurance Group Co (CPIC) on March 18, the public leg of a derivative agreement with Allianz through which the German insurer hedged part of its stake in the Chinese firm.

Two pharmaceutical companies are preparing to list their shares on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, with PuraPharm Corp and Zhongzhi Pharmaceutical Holdings filing their respective preliminary prospectuses on March 18.

Armenia released price guidance for a 10 year dollar bond at 7.625% area on Thursday morning and the book size is already past the $500m target size.

Commodity trader Gunvor is offering to buy back $80m of its bond maturing 2018.

Final terms were released today for the €600m loan in euros and dollars to fund the merger between publishers Springer Science and Macmillan Science and Education.

Slovenia printed its longest ever bond on Wednesday, a 20 year, taking advantage of a near halving of its spreads since the start of this year to print inside where Spain's government bonds trade.

Kenyan borrowers look set to lead the charge when African loans emerge from their recent lull, said loans bankers, with several requests for proposals floated.

Bulgaria was offering generous premiums on its triple tranche Eurobond on Thursday. But while bankers said pricing looks cheap, they questioned whether the 20 year tranche would sell well.

Cairo headquartered African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) has requested proposals for an international loan of around $500m, said bankers.

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Indonesia’s largest wireless telecom company Telekomunikasi Selular is raising a $150m loan for capital expenditure purposes.

India’s Adlabs Entertainment wrapped up its extended IPO this week, raising Rp3.70bn ($59m) by pricing its shares at the bottom of a revised range.