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Canadian SEC-registered covered bond borrowers are expected to switch back to issuing under 144A/Reg S documentation after amendments to an existing regulation made SEC registration more onerous.

Argentine company MSU Energy is considering approaching international bond markets for the first time, credit analysts in Buenos Aires say.

The Vietnamese unit of South Korean cinema chain CJ CGV is looking to float on Korea’s main board, according to a source familiar with the matter.

The logistics arm of Indian multinational automobile conglomerate Mahindra & Mahindra has filed for approval for an IPO that could raise up to $150m, according to a source close to the deal.

India’s market regulator has asked listed companies to disclose any default on bank loans within one working day from the date of the missed payment, in a move to tackle the country’s bad loan problems.

Quam’s rights issue to raise HK$5.1bn ($656.2m) was under-subscribed, forcing its underwriters to cover the HK$1.2bn shortfall.

China’s banking regulator has given Postal Savings Bank of China Co the go-ahead to raise additional tier one capital offshore, adding to the hefty issuance pipeline from the country’s commercial banks.

Export-Import Bank of India is poised to make its debut in the dollar Formosa market, becoming only the second borrower from the south Asian country to sell a bond in Taiwan.

Agile Group Holdings is marketing a five non call three year dollar bond to refinance part of its outstanding $500m notes from 2014.

In this round-up, an ex-IMF economist says China needs an independent central bank, the People’s Bank of China considers changing the RMB trading band, and trade between China and Africa surges in the first half of the year.

Last week saw the climax of the European bank reporting season, and it was a mixed bag. Some results were good, others less so, but taking a longer term perspective, it might be the rise of the Japanese megabanks that stands out most sharply.

Chinese real estate firms have been the source of many of Asia’s high yield deals in the past few years. The landscape is changing, however, due to a complex mix of Chinese regulatory efforts to make domestic capital markets more accessible for issuers, prolonged renminbi volatility that has lowered the appeal of dollar funding, and increasingly stringent rules set by China’s National Development and Reform Commission that control offshore issuance by domestic firms. The NDRC recently went as far as naming and shaming issuers circumventing such procedures.