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Korea Gas Corp, a government-owned borrower, found ample support for its dual tranche $800m bond, with demand of more than $5bn during bookbuilding allowing the firm to price the notes around some fair value estimates, and well inside others.

LG Chem got an $8.5bn final book for a $1bn dual-tranche green bond this week, with the deal pricing through some fair value estimates and ending the South Korean chemical company's two year hiatus from the debt market.

Gazprom ended a three year absence from the Swiss franc market this week by attracting a large amount of retail participation in a Sfr600m ($653.4m) deal that launched at an attractive spread.

Hong Kong-listed ESR Cayman, a logistics real estate company, has raised a $400m dual-tranche borrowing.

SK Bioscience has priced its IPO at the top of the marketed range, raising W1.49tr ($1.32bn) from South Korea’s largest listing in four years.

Korea Development Bank has set a new benchmark for Asia by selling the region’s first SEC-registered Sofr-linked floating rate dollar note. It gives further momentum to the use of the new Libor replacement rate, amid an expected spurt in FRN issuance due to volatility in interest rates. Morgan Davis reports.

Korea Development Bank returned to the bond market on Monday with a three-tranche transaction, marketing one of the notes with a green label. Despite pricing its trade at one of the tightest levels seen among the country’s lenders, the borrower still received strong demand.

Krafton, a popular South Korean video game developer, has mandated banks for its 2021 IPO.

Indonesian state-owned electricity company Perusahaan Listrik Negara has cancelled a $300m loan, after receiving a capital injection from the government.

Korea Development Bank took $1bn from a dual tranche transaction on Monday, using a social label for one portion of the bond to attract a new group of investors.

South Korea's Big Hit Entertainment, the talent manager behind globally-popular boy band BTS, has sealed the country’s largest listing in three years as investors continue to flock to Korea's IPO market.

Big Hit Entertainment, the label behind hugely popular K-pop boy band BTS, this week launched bookbuilding for an IPO that will be worth as much as W962.6bn ($818.4m). The company is the latest to ride a wave of demand sweeping the country’s stock market, causing an over-heating that is pushing prices dangerously high, said bankers. Jonathan Breen reports.