Asia Pacific
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The US stock market and the dollar have been falling since last week, as fears have grown that Donald Trump might win the US presidency in Tuesday's election. -
Caja Rural Navarra is planning the first green covered bond of the year. It follows a trio of covered bonds issued by Australian banks and the first transaction to be issued from Nordea in more than a year.
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National Australia Bank has mandated leads for a five year sterling floating rate bond, alongside a seven year euro senior unsecured benchmark.
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The Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission has fired a warning shot at banks, with both Standard Chartered and UBS being investigated for their roles as IPO sponsors. The move has left other banks wondering which one will be next and comes at a time when the IPO market is teetering. John Loh reports.
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ECM bankers in Hong Kong are playing the blame game after a string of recent IPOs disappointed in secondary, fuelling angst among hedge funds and fears that this could hurt the year-end pipeline.
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Bank of East Asia (China) has appointed Cartier Lam Chi-man as executive director and chief executive, succeeding Kwan Tat-cheong who will become senior adviser to BEA China.
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Invitations are out for a $300m three year borrowing for China ZhengTong Auto Services, a luxury auto dealership. Morgan Stanley is leading the deal, which can be increased in size based on the response.
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A man of my intelligence really ought to have known better. I should have trusted my instincts when an acquaintance I hadn't heard from in years invited me, out of the blue, to a news conference his company was holding in the Island Shangri-La hotel last week.
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ANZ has undergone a number of changes since Shayne Elliot took over as CEO a year ago, raising questions about the bank's commitment to Asia. But ANZ has not given up its ambitions to be Australia’s most international bank and Asia remains a key part of that strategy, Farhan Faruqui, head of international institutional business, said this week.
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Credit Suisse had a profitable third quarter in Asia Pacific, with modest growth in net revenues year-on-year, despite a large drop in pre-tax income when compared with the second quarter.
