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Controversy-dogged 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB) is to update and resubmit a prospectus for the IPO of its energy arm to Securities Commission Malaysia, in one of the company’s first statements clarifying that a listing is being planned.

A jump in green bond issuance and investment over the last few years has led to a group of high profile investors to call for the industry to develop global uniform standards. But with the buyside divided over how to classify green bonds and the need for more rules, progress is expected to be slow, writes Christina Khouri.

Resorts World at Sentosa has opened a S$2.25bn ($1.648bn) financing into general syndication, with the same five banks leading the new loan as the ones that led its last one.

HKBN — Hong Kong Broadband Network — has delivered a strong boost for the city’s ECM market, pricing its HK$5.80bn ($748m) deal at the top of the range to become the largest IPO on the exchange so far this year. The absence of any sensitivity on pricing meant books were multiple times covered, making allocations very tricky and meaning that 25% of the investors went away empty handed.

Cowell e Holdings — a maker of front-end camera modules for mobile devices — has begun testing investor appetite for its $150m-$200m IPO, with its link to Apple expected to be a key selling point.

India’s new budget brought mixed news for ECM bankers hoping for changes to tax rules for real estate investment trusts (Reits) and infrastructure investment trusts (InvITs). The government delivered much-needed clarity on some aspects of the tax regime, but big gaps still remain, with the stage not yet set to welcome the country’s first Reits, writes Rashmi Kumar.

Islamic Development Bank (IsDB) enjoyed smooth execution on a $1bn five year sukuk, which it priced inside its secondary curve on Thursday.

Thailand is inching towards releasing new rules allowing foreign companies to list on its stock exchange for the first time. Interest is already building among non-Thai issuers looking to tap the kingdom’s superior domestic liquidity and retail investor base, but market participants warn that a lot of work remains before the country becomes a hub for cross-border capital, writes John Loh.

Danube Foods Group, the Serbian packaged foods company, has obtained commitments from banks on a €375m loan to back its buy-out by Mid Europa Partners.

The ijara structure Hong Kong adopted last year is the most commonly used by international issuers. Some $100.8bn of international sukuk with a maturity of at least one year and $500m in size have been issued since 2002, out of which $50.9bn were ijara sukuk.

The government of Hong Kong is following up last September’s success with plans to issue a second sukuk this year, a $500m-$1bn three or five year deal. With the borrower opting for an asset-light wakala structure this time around, market participants say this could be the key for Hong Kong to fulfill its ambitions of becoming an Islamic finance hub, writes Rev Hui.

Saudi Arabian Oil Co appears close to completing a tightly priced $10bn revolving credit facility to back its expansion into new markets.