Standard Chartered

Kingboard Chemical Holdings took out HK$5.5bn ($704.4m) from the syndicated loan market this week, after bringing in nine banks as bookrunners on top of the two original lead banks.

Tata Motors’ £640m ($839m) refinancing has been launched into general syndication after the senior phase was completed this month.

Republic of Nigeria

Nigeria issued a dual tranche 10 and 30 year Eurobond this week that traded up between two and three cash points, as emerging markets (EM) assets recovered after a recent wobble.

UBS has named a top executive in Zurich to take over as its India country head from next year, according to an internal memo seen by GlobalCapital Asia.

Centratama Telekomunikasi Indonesia has launched a triple-tranche $390m financing into general syndication through two mandated lead arrangers and bookrunners.

Greatship (India) and Sino Horizon Holdings are in the market with their latest financings, each offering three ticket levels.

The Province of British Columbia (BC) completed its second Panda bond on Wednesday, raising Rmb1bn ($150.9m) from a three year deal. The issuer went ahead with the deal despite rising yields in China – pushing the coupon to the top half of the guidance range.

The dollar tranche of Ülker’s second loan of the year has been priced 20bp tighter than on its first loan of 2017, suggesting the market is swinging in Turkish borrowers’ favour as political noise in the country quietens down.

Chinese local government financing vehicles Binhai Investment Company and Qingdao City Construction Investment (Group) took advantage of their investment grade credentials to raise a collective $1.1bn from bonds on Wednesday.

Union Bank of the Philippines made diversification its focus in its return to the dollar debt market after a 13 year absence, netting $400m from a tightly priced offering.

The barrage of Chinese debt issuers in the dollar market continued on Wednesday as four issuers ventured out with new bonds.