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Olam International has made a quick return to the loan market, raising a ¥25bn ($233m) Samurai facility.

Philippine issuers are flooding the market with dollar bonds, giving investors an unprecedented selection of deals from the country. There is plenty more to come. Morgan Davis reports.

Indonesia’s Perkebunan Nusantara III (PTPN) is seeking lenders’ go-ahead for a debt restructuring plan, after missing the principal payment on a $390.6m loan at the end of June.

HSBC has hired two bankers from Deutsche Bank in Singapore to boost its equities business in southeast Asia.

Durreen Shahnaz is founder and chief executive of Impact Investment Exchange (IIX), which says it created the world's first social stock exchange. She tells GlobalCapital about how we can rebuild a better economy, with the help of capital markets, after coronavirus.

International Container Terminal Services (ICTSI), a Philippine port company, made a quick return to the debt market on Tuesday, selling a $300m perpetual bond just weeks after securing a $400m trade.

Metropolitan Bank & Trust Co followed fellow Philippine bank BDO Unibank offshore this week, raising $500m on Tuesday.

Charoen Pokphand Indonesia is gauging appetite among a select few existing lenders for a new $307.9m-equivalent dual-currency loan.

Philippines issuers continued to add to the bond market this week, with BDO Unibank breaking a three-year hiatus for $600m.

VPBank Finance Co, the consumer finance arm of Vietnam Prosperity Joint Stock Commercial Bank, has launched a $200m new money loan.

Philippine conglomerate JG Summit Holdings managed to tackle investor questions and scrutiny into the impact of Covid-19 on its business to make a rare bond market outing for $600m.

An Indonesian palm oil company has become the latest to fall victim to rising worries among loans bankers about government support. The company missed a payment last week, after bankers rejected an earlier covenant waiver request. Pan Yue reports.