ANZ

Lloyds Banking Group has returned to the Aussie dollar market for the first time since May 2018, offering investors the chance to invest in two tranches of senior debt at the operating company level. The issuer follows a wave of European and UK financial institutions making their way down under.

ANZ names regional head — SPDB hires new loans chief — ANZ adds to syndication team — Bank of America loses loans banker — Citi appoints execution head

ANZ has named Vishnu Shahaney as the new head of Southeast Asia, India and Middle East, and the country head for Singapore.

Cofco International, a commodities trading unit of China’s agri-products company Cofco, has increased its sustainability-linked loan to $2.3bn after receiving commitments from 21 lenders.

ANZ's Paul Brickell has transferred to the bank’s loan syndications team as a director, according to a source close to the situation.

Chinese delivery services company SF Express is seeking a HK$5bn ($640m) syndicated loan to refinance a bridge facility used to support its acquisition of Deutsche Post DHL’s supply chain business in the Mainland.

Ex-ANZ and UBS banker Allison MacKinnon will join RBC Capital Markets to lead its debt capital markets offering for UK companies.

As core markets in the northern hemisphere begin to cool, SSA issuers are looking towards a Kiwi and Aussie periphery unaffected by the summer close.

India’s Oil and Natural Gas Corp has launched a $500m loan into general syndication to pay back a bond maturing this year.

ANZ has hired Carson Tse from HSBC as a senior manager in its loan syndications team in Hong Kong.

The Bank of Montreal followed Toronto Dominion’s lead on Wednesday to join the Canadian bail-inable Kangaroo frenzy, placing A$750m of five year debt.

Australia’s bank capital regulator has refused to back down from requiring the country’s largest banks to meet new loss-absorbing debt targets with tier two bonds, raising the prospect of a wave of supply over the next four years. The question now is: how much will it cost them? Tyler Davies reports.