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My friends who work the Indian loan syndication desks tell me that things haven’t been this busy in a long time. A swathe of corporate borrowers are heading overseas to take advantage of cheaper dollar-denominated funding after India’s central bank raised interest rates and made domestic loans pricey.
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Asian corporate hybrid issuance is set to take off. Cheung Kong Infrastructure is opening the door to a handful of other Hong Kong borrowers that DCM bankers hope will tap the market. There are a million reasons why issuers should sell hybrids — and a few reasons why investors should buy them — but the scope for the development of the product in Asia is likely to be limited.
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Mitsubishi Corp funding officials took a reasoned approach to the sharp tightening of their debut international bond this week, welcoming it as a sign that investors liked the credit and committing to sell regular dollar bonds in future.
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The Republic of the Philippines’ planned synthetic peso bond could plot a course for other high quality Asian issuers to follow. Funding officials from the country may not be creating a new structure, but its use by a top Asian sovereign is sure to excite global investors with a hunger for Asian currencies — and could start a new trend in the region.
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China’s interbank bond market can sometimes inspire awe, and it did just that this week when state fund Central Huijin raised the equivalent of almost $8bn from a dual-tranche bond issue. But Hong Kong’s much smaller renminbi market is inspiring more than just awe among global bankers. It is inspiring action — and it is likely to be the only source of actual business for the rest of the year.