UBS

Tsinghua University Science Park, or Tuspark, raised $350m from its bond sale on Wednesday, notably helped by 14 bookrunners.

UBS has nabbed a banker from BNP Paribas for its emerging markets DCM team.

High yield property company Intiland Development flopped in the offshore market on Tuesday, failing to price what would have been its debut dollar deal.

The bank’s creation of a new senior banker layer comes as big banks struggle with a talent brain drain, writes David Rothnie.

Mainland telecommunications infrastructure giant China Tower raised HK$54.3bn ($6.9bn) this week after getting its mammoth float across the line at the bottom of guidance.

India’s HDFC Bank has raised $2.22bn through a qualified institutional placement and a concurrent sale of American Depository Shares (ADS).

State-owned China Merchants Port Holdings Co (CMP) closed a $1.5bn dual-tranche transaction on Monday, attracting a final order book of $8bn. The deal put an end to a months-long drought of 10 year supply by Chinese issuers.

WiZink Bank sold its buyout payment-in-kind (PIK) bonds in the euro high yield market this week, a rare opportunity for high yield investors given the slim volumes from the financial sector and Iberian issuers this year.

Värde Partners plans to fund the acquisition of Spanish consumer credit bank WiZink with payment in kind (PIK) notes, a type of high yield issuance that borrowers have barely used in the last 18 months.

Fortune Oil PRC Holdings has returned to the offshore loan market for a $400m borrowing, refinancing a smaller deal closed in 2016.

Telecommunications infrastructure giant China Tower found huge demand for its multi-billion-dollar IPO this week as it kicked off bookbuilding in Hong Kong. The deal is a counter-balance to a flood of technology listings in the market this year. Jonathan Breen reports.

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