Southeast Asia
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New York Stock Exchange-listed Sea, an online gaming firm, is bookbuilding for its debut convertible bond worth some $400m.
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TruePTS, a derivatives post-trade company set up by trueEX, is gearing up to face off against derivatives processing utility MarkitSERV as it launches its offering for buy-side firms.
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Singapore’s Wilmar International has raised a $200m sustainability-linked loan, the second of its kind from the agribusiness company in seven months.
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BNP Paribas’s Singapore chief executive officer is relocating to the US to take up a new position within the bank, according to sources.
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Credit Suisse has appointed Felicity Chan to lead its equity syndicate team in southeast Asia, while promoting Yvonne Voon to head of real estate coverage for the region.
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Philippine property developer DM Wenceslao & Associates has raised Ps8.5bn after pricing its IPO on the back of strong demand from domestic funds.
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Citi has named Kelvin Goh as head of FIG insurance, Asia Pacific investment banking, and head of corporate finance for Singapore, according to a memo seen by GlobalCapital Asia.
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Cambodia’s Prasac Microfinance Institution has decided to increase the size of its loan to $100m after receiving commitments from 14 lenders to the oversubscribed deal, according to a banker close to the situation.
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HSBC has named Sean Henderson and Sean McNelis as co-heads of debt capital markets, Asia Pacific, with immediate effect, according to a memo seen by GlobalCapital Asia.
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Del Monte Pacific has shelved the Ps17.6bn ($334.5m) IPO of its subsidiary Del Monte Philippines citing poor market conditions.
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TMB Bank, with support from the International Finance Corp (IFC), sold the first green bond from a Thai commercial bank on Tuesday, raising $60m.
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Temasek Holdings returned to the securitization market this week after a two year hiatus to woo investors into private equity funds-backed Astrea IV. Institutional investors are already in the bag. The focus now is on winning over retail accounts — the first time such a deal has been open to the city-state’s public, writes Addison Gong.