Americas

Chinese online game developer NetEase has raised HK$21.1bn ($2.7bn) from its secondary offering in Hong Kong, riding on strong investor support for its listing, according to a senior banker on the deal.

Chinese e-commerce company JD.com will open books for its Hong Kong secondary listing on Friday after the markets close, according to two sources close to the deal.

The Central American Bank for Economic Integration (Cabei) raised $530m-equivalent of debt in Taiwan and Switzerland this week to complete the bulk of its bond financing for the year, leaving the lender to focus on bilateral funding and further investor relations for the rest of the year.

While leading economists fret about a reckoning to come for emerging market debt in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, for vast swathes of EM issuers bond market business is brisk. Despite dire data and forecasts, dollar funding costs for some sovereigns are nearing pre-crisis levels as investors grasp at any sort of yield. The rally may have further to run, write Ross Lancaster and Oliver West.

Cboe Global Markets has decided to delay its return to open outcry pit trading, amid city closures across Chicago.

Amazon made a triumphant return to the dollar bond market this week as supply moved within touching distance of the total for 2019 amid red-hot demand.

Central American Bank of Economic Integration (Cabei) turned to the Taiwanese market on Wednesday, raising $375m just weeks after a $750m bond sale in the US.

Chinese online game developer NetEase had covered its HK$21.6bn ($2.8bn) secondary listing in Hong Kong multiple times over by the time GlobalCapital Asia went to press on Thursday. Investors have long awaited the company’s return from the US, pumping in orders as markets rallied despite numerous geopolitical headlines. Jonathan Breen reports.

US convertible bond issuance topped $21.3bn in May as American companies rushed to raise funding during the Covid-19 global pandemic, transforming a niche corner of the equity capital markets into a significant source of banking fees.

Brazil became the third Latin American issuer in three days to find bond buyers willing to place large orders even as pricing was pushed below their initial demands, as it raised $3.5bn of five and 10 year paper to provide arguably the starkest example yet that technicals are trumping fundamentals primary emerging market new issues.

Online casino gaming company DoubleDown Interactive is planning a Nasdaq IPO, the first by a South Korean company in nearly a decade.

Latin American bond bankers were hopeful that Cemex’s blowout bond issue on Tuesday could cajole other issuers into the market after the Mexican cement producer navigated volatile secondary market and a rating downgrade to notch a hefty order on the way to a $1bn seven-year bond.