Singapore

Singapore Exchange (SGX) and the Baltic Exchange have agreed terms for a recommended share offer as the Asian company looks to proceed with a proposed acquisition.

DBS Group Holdings has hired five firms to prepare its maiden dollar-denominated additional tier one bank capital offering.

Singapore-based auto leasing company Ethoz Group is gauging appetite for a syndicated loan of up to S$120m ($89m).

BOC Aviation has ended an eight month break from the loan market, sending out a request for proposals for a $1.5bn revolver.

The Chicago Board Options Exchange has obtained regulatory approval for its CBOE Futures Exchange (CFE) to become a registered market operator in Singapore.

Commodities trader Noble Group is in the spotlight again after Fitch and Moody's published divergent ratings on Monday. Fitch took a more benign view on Noble, but Moody's downgraded it to B2 from Ba3 with a negative outlook.

Malaysia’s Sime Darby is injecting its Australian properties into Singapore-listed Saizen Real Estate Investment Trust via a reverse takeover in exchange for new units and cash raised from bank debt.

Singapore’s Suntec real estate investment trust (Reit) sold its first convertible bond in three years on Thursday, raising S$300m ($223.1m) after exercising the full greenshoe on the deal.

China Construction Bank’s Singapore branch sealed a Rmb1bn ($150m) dim sum transaction Thursday, putting an end to a one-month silence in the offshore renminbi (CNH) debt market.

Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corp has made a number of changes to its organisation in Hong Kong and Singapore, in a bid to improve its distribution platform.

Increased provisioning and DBS’ high exposure to Swiber has raised some questions about the bank’s handling of the problem and the overall quality of Singaporean lenders’ portfolios, considering their local market is heavily composed companies in cyclical sectors such as oil and gas.

Guillaume du Cheyron, head of high yield bond origination and execution for Asia, has left Deutsche Bank.