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The deal brings together two companies that are the second-largest players in their respective home markets.

Yang Xia, head of equities at UBS China, is moving to a slightly broader role at Bank of America Merrill Lynch to oversee Greater China equities.

Global A&T Electronics, holding company of UTAC, issues the biggest-ever sponsor company high-yield bond in Asia, attracting solid US investor demand.

Sri Lanka comes to market with its largest and longest-dated sovereign ever, achieving the objective of extending its yield curve to 10 years.

US investors, enjoying a healthy pickup in yield, buy 63% of Kepco's new 3% bonds.

Taking advantage of scarcity value both in the DBS name and the Singapore bank sector, DBS prices the largest ever Reg-S bond in Asia, securing $3.5 billion in orders.

Despite the recent sluggish performance of China's property market, Renhe's new issue achieves a sound performance, printing at par and trading up to 100.375 on its first day.

Sinha joins from Barclays Capital as head of Asia-Pacific G10 FX strategy and will be responsible for calls on the Aussie and Kiwi dollars and the Japanese yen.

Banks are again issuing bonds with five-and-a-half year tenors to take advantage of attractive funding levels and to meet investor demand.