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Mauritius Commercial Bank has raised a new dual tranche $800m loan after receiving commitments of over $1bn. The deal was welcomed by bankers as one of the few new money financings in the market.

First Abu Dhabi Bank printed a rare three year floating rate note on Tuesday inside its fixed rate curve. Investors flocked to the deal as a “risk-free” way to park cash, according to a syndicate official on the deal.

China's New Century Real Estate Investment Trust is tapping onshore and offshore loan markets for its latest deal.

Deutsche Bank has promoted Haitham Ghattas to co-head of its financing and solutions group in Asia Pacific, following Jake Gearhart’s relocation to the US.

China’s Jiuquan Iron & Steel (Group) Co, or Jisco for short, was able to find enough demand on Tuesday to cover its first international bond — a deal months in the making — raising $300m.

Singapore agricultural commodity company Olam International and its wholly owned subsidiary Olam Treasury have raised the firm's first loan where its funding costs are linked to the digitisation of the company.

Two Malaysian state-backed funds, Employees Provident Fund and Permodalan Nasional Berhad, have raised a £1.5bn ($1.96bn) three year bullet loan to support their acquisition of part of the Battersea Power Station development in London.

Chinese issuers have become too focused on Hong Kong when marketing their dollar bonds, panelists at Euromoney's China Debt Capital Markets Summit said last week.

Bank of Baroda returned to the market on Thursday to sell its first dollar deal in nearly five years. The bank, acting through its London Branch, raised $800m in a sale that came just days before its expected merger with Vijaya Bank and Dena Bank.

Chinese provincial government-owned Guangzhou Industrial Investment Fund Management Co (Sfund) saw a 14 times covered order book for its return to dollar bonds, while Yunnan Metropolitan Construction Investment Group Co was able to hit its $800m size target.

Vodafone launched and priced on Thursday a $2bn hybrid capital issue, to gain some more equity credit in the eyes of the rating agencies. The deal follows Moody’s decision on Monday to give no equity credit to Vodafone’s £3.4bn mandatorily convertible bond, issued on March 5.

The Government of Sharjah printed a $1bn seven year sukuk on Tuesday. The strength of demand surprised even Tom Koczwara, director of the emirate’s debt management office.