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GB Group, the UK-based data intelligence firm, won strong approval from investors for its strategic acquisition of IDology, a US company that provides ID verification and fraud detection services.

Turkey has picked banks for its third benchmark of the year and its first since 2017 to be issued using sukuk documentation. Bankers say another Turkish borrower could mandate before the end of the week.

Rizwan Hussain, the controversial figure who runs investment vehicle Clifden Isle of Man No 1, has been declared insolvent, according to UK court records, even while a separate investment vehicle he controls, Greencoat Investments Ltd, is in the market trying to take control of pre-crisis securitization from the Business Mortgage Finance series. The insolvency isn’t Hussain’s only trouble, GlobalCapital understands, with at least one investment bank having reported him to the regulator over a previous tender for UK RMBS notes.

Highgate School is marketing a US private placement (US PP), according to two US PP players. The market has become a home for private and public schools looking for long term financing.

Dozens, the latest digital banking offering, aims to revolutionise retail banking in favour of the customer, by routing returns back to depositors and avoiding most unsecured consumer lending. Is this an unworkable goal, or is founder Aritra Chakravarty on to something?

Chinese real estate companies Zhenro Properties and China Aoyuan Group reopened the Asian offshore bond market with a bang, as cash rich investors flocked to their transactions.

Indian debt issuers have started 2019 with a bang, rolling out more than $3bn of bonds in January. Will the country eclipse the dismal dollar bond volumes it managed last year? Don’t bet on it. As a divisive election looms, it is more likely that Indian issuance will disappoint for a second year running.

Filippo Gori's rise up the ranks in JP Morgan's Asian team continued this week, when he was picked to succeed Nicolas Aguzin as head of Asia Pacific banking.

Singapore-listed Mapletree Industrial Trust (MIT) has bagged S$201m ($147.9m) after upsizing an overnight unit placement on the back of strong early demand.

Chow Tai Fook has made a quick comeback to the offshore loan market, eyeing a smaller deal after closing a $1.3bn fundraising last March.

China Tian Lun Gas has closed an oversubscribed loan worth HK$2bn ($255m) after attracting 13 lenders in general syndication.

The International Development Association is preparing a short-term borrowing programme that the issuer told GlobalCapital will be similar in form to the commercial paper offerings of its peers the European Investment Bank and KfW. A second benchmark — likely to be in sterling or a niche currency — or a debut private medium-term note could follow, the borrower added.