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Thailand’s TOA Paint has raised Bt12.2bn ($363.9m) from an IPO that was flooded with demand from foreign and domestic investors, driving pricing to the top of guidance.

Lionbridge Capital Co made a triumphant return to the dollar bond market on Thursday, closing a $160m deal it was forced to cancel earlier this year. But the market was not open to all-comers — Nan Hai Corp cancelled a mooted deal.

CMS Info Systems plans to raise about Rp12bn ($184m) from its India IPO and could open books before the end of the year, said bankers on the deal.

Chilean credit union Cooperativa del Personal de la Universidad de Chile (Coopeuch) joins the ranks of Chilean borrowers welcomed into the Swiss franc bond market. Thursday’s outing further illustrates that the love affair of the Chilean borrower and Swiss buyer not only endures but burns brightly.

Bank of Montreal (BMO) raised A$800m selling Australian dollar bonds for the first time on Wednesday. The rising flows of Asia Pacific investors is making the Australian dollar market a useful source of diversification for financials and corporates alike.

Four firms from Asia ex-Japan are taking bids for their dollar bonds, including Lionbridge Capital Co, Nan Hai Corp, Overseas Chinese Town Enterprises Company as well as Malaysia’s Yinson Holdings.

Bawag, the Austrian banking group that has been owned by Cerberus since 2007, will attempt to go public in Vienna this autumn, with an IPO that will provide a serious test of the strength of investor demand for the European banking sector.

Bruce MacKenzie has joined UBS as a managing director in the bank's EMEA leveraged capital markets business, according to an internal memo seen by GlobalCapital.

Bank of Montreal launched an inaugural Australian dollar benchmark on Wednesday. As the fanfare for other Canadian financials has demonstrated, the Asian Pacific buyers are likely to come out in full force.

Deutsche Wohnen, one of the biggest listed German residential property companies, added its name to the string of equity-linked deals in Europe this month on Tuesday when it printed an €800m eight year note to finance a tender offer for a previous convertible bond, due in 2021.

Nan Fung International Holdings managed to get the best of both worlds on Monday, finding the ideal price for its bond while also bagging a size within its target.

Nan Fung International Holdings began marketing a new dollar bullet on Monday morning, the property developer’s second international bond this year.