Briefs: CBA's dim sum roadshow, Macquarie taps AUD bond market, offshore bank news, and more 26 February 2015 5:44PM Banking Day staff Briefs, Commonwealth Bank of Australia, with help from HSBC as its other "joint global coordinator", will meet fixed income investors in Hong Kong and Singapore next week. "An offering of Reg S Basel III-compliant CNY-denominated subordinated notes may follow, subject to market conditions," CBA said in a media release. These notes - assuming they eventuate - are expected to be rated A3 by Moody's, BBB+ by S&P and A+ by Fitch, and would become the third "dim sum" Tier 2 issue by a major Australian bank. ANZ opened the market in January and Westpac followed at the end of the month. Macquarie Bank has mandated joint lead managers ANZ and National Australia Bank, along with its own origination team, for a new Australian dollar denominated five-year senior unsecured benchmark issue - that is, seeking to raise more than A$500 million. The issue was "expected to price in the near future, subject to market conditions" the bank said yesterday. Macquarie Bank is a regular issuer in international markets, with more than $8 billion of bonds issued in 2014, but has not issued in its own domestic market since June 2012. Despite allegations of money laundering, London based HSBC has lifted its Indian employee headcount by 1000 according to the bank's annual report. Business Standard reports that the India headcount stands at 32,000, the second highest country workforce, behind HSBC's UK operations. Deutsche Bank signed a multi-billion-dollar agreement to outsource its wholesale banking IT infrastructure to Hewlett-Packard, the two companies said in a joint statement on Tuesday. Under the ten-year agreement, HP will provide dedicated data centre services including storage, platform and hosting. Deutsche Bank will retain activities such as IT architecture, application development and information security. JP Morgan Chase is planning to close 300 retail branches over the next two years, starting with 150 this year and then another 150 in 2016, USA Today reports. JPMorgan also announced plans to shed US$100 billion in large deposits by the end of the year as it prepares for new capital requirement rules, which will penalise banks for large, uninsured deposits viewed as unstable by regulators.