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TCC Group subsidiary Berli Jucker Public Co has signed up nine lenders for a €3.2bn ($3.5bn) portion of a larger loan to support its acquisition of retailer Big C Supercenter.

Thailand’s TMB Bank is set to return to the dollar bond market for the first time in 10 years, having mandated three lenders for a roadshow next week.

GlobalCapital announces the results of its Equity Capital Markets Awards for 2015, following our inaugural ECM Awards Dinner, in London on March 16.

Bank of Communications Financial Leasing sealed a popular $1bn dua tranche offering on Tuesday, drawing a huge crowd of investors amid a lack of dollar bonds from China this year.

Dubai Islamic Bank is embarking on a roadshow for a senior dollar sukuk, and looks likely to be the first bank from the Gulf Cooperation Council to enter the public bond markets this year.

Market participants have been sceptical about the Hong Kong Exchange's (HKEX) plans for a Bond Connect with China ever since the idea was first floated in late 2014. Eighteen months later, the opening up of China’s interbank bond market (CIBM) has thrown up more questions about the scheme’s viability.

ABN Amro became the first foreign lender to issue a tier two bond in Taiwan’s Formosa market following a change in rules at the start of the year.

German car maker Daimler is planning to return to China’s onshore Panda bond market with a private placement offering in the interbank bond market, several sources familiar to the deal have told GlobalRMB.

Bank of Communications Financial Leasing’s $1bn dual-tranche offering was a big success on Tuesday, as cash-rich Chinese investors were drawn to the credit amid a dearth of dollar offerings from the country.

The $150m loan for Africa Finance Corporation is still in the market, although commitments for the loan were due weeks ago.

Malaysian telecommunications giant Axiata Group and Bank of Communications Financial Leasing are looking to tie up their respective dollar offerings on Tuesday with the former executing a sukuk and the latter a conventional bond.

A $300m three year loan for Development Bank of the Philippines (DBP) has been allocated, with the borrowing capped at the launch size despite an oversubscription.