"High-grade, government-owned corporates with strategic assets in the largest economy in Asia remain popular with investors globally, " said Duncan Phillips, co-head of debt syndication in Asia excluding Japan at Citigroup Inc.

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According to Bob Hugin, head of fixed-income syndication at J.

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For some of the larger banks in countries such as Germany, keeping out of the bond market is a matter of choice, said Keval Shah, head of the bond-syndication desk for financial companies at Citigroup Inc.

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