Southeast Asia

ANZ has appointed Rufus Pinto as the chief executive officer of Laos, according to a Tuesday statement from the Australian lender.

Buriram Sugar Group Power Plant Infrastructure Fund priced its IPO in Thailand near the top of the marketing range last Friday to raise Bt3.6bn ($108.2m).

Singapore-based Novena Global Lifecare Group is gunning for a listing on the Taiwan Stock Exchange to raise $150m for regional expansion.

Oil and gas exploration and production company Medco Energi Internasional is eyeing the offshore market for a senior bond, and will meet fixed income accounts in Asia, Europe and the US.

Two banks have underwritten a $4.65bn financing package for the acquisition of Singapore’s Global Logistic Properties (GLP) by a consortium of Chinese investors.

Indonesian palm oil company Tunas Baru Lampung (TBLA) is looking for a Singapore dollar deal, marking its first bond in the currency as well as its maiden offshore deal.

Indonesia’s Bumi Resources has raised Rph35.1tr ($2.6bn) from the sale of rights shares and mandatory convertible bonds, in a bid to shed debt.

Indonesian tyre maker Gajah Tunggal is planning a return to the dollar market to refinance a $500m 7.75% note coming due in February 2018.

Malaysia has seen the inaugural green sukuk under the Securities Commission's Sustainable & Responsible Investment (SRI) sukuk framework, highlighting the country’s efforts in meeting the growing needs of global infrastructure and green financing.

Hong Kong-listed China Agri-Products Exchange’s (CAP) rights issue to raise HK$1.3bn ($166.4m) has received "negative feedback" from the city’s bourse and could be rejected.

Singapore Exchange said on Friday that companies with dual-class share (DCS) structures that have a primary listing in developed markets can seek a secondary listing in the city-state.

Asian bond investors reclaimed some of their power this week, but the coup was far from bloodless. Three single-B rated issuers were forced to pull planned dollar bonds. Morgan Davis and Addison Gong report.