Singapore
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Commerzbank has ended a 10-month drought in Singapore dollar-denominated tier two deals, returning this week with a S$400m ($290m) bond. What lies ahead for the southeast Asian city-state’s local currency market? Addison Gong finds out. -
OUE Commercial Real Estate Investment Trust will partly fund an acquisition from its sponsor through a S$587.5m ($427.2m) rights issue.
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August was generally a healthy month for many global derivatives exchanges, though performance was not quite consistent across the industry.
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Ascendas Real Estate Investment Trust tapped equity investors for S$452.1m ($328.6m) with a follow-on offering on Thursday, its first visit to the market in over two years.
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A number of bond issuers ventured out to the debt market on Wednesday, braving a weak market backdrop to pull off deals not just in US dollars, but also in Singapore dollars and offshore renminbi.
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Jiten Arora took over as Standard Chartered's global head of commercial banking on August 30, according to a Monday press release.
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Credit Suisse has rejigged the leadership of its private bank in Asia, making Francois Monnet and Benjamin Cavalli heads of the division for north and south Asia respectively.
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Singapore Telecommunications bagged $500m from an opportunistic outing on Monday, leveraging on its rarity value and investment grade credentials to woo investors.
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Singapore Telecommunications and a Hangzhou local government financing vehicle both hit the dollar bond market on Monday, already putting Asia’s debt market ahead of the one dollar issuance last week. But bankers say there is little more to come.
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KBS Realty Advisors is preparing to float its second Reit in Singapore backed by US commercial properties, bankers close to the deal said.
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Oversea-Chinese Banking Corp (OCBC) reopened Singapore’s additional tier one market this week, managing to raise S$1bn ($726.87m) from the first such deal in 14 months.
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Deutsche Bank taps Ngan for ECM — Citi names first BRI head — Li emerges at Citic — Morgan Stanley promotes in SEA — Nomura hires for Korea DCM
