Asia Pacific

The older I get, the more I realise that there’s absolutely no pleasing some of us — be it retired chaps like me or the young’uns still in the game.

The upcoming launch of the Shenzhen-Hong Kong Stock Connect will give offshore investors access to close to 90% of China’s domestic stock market. Now the focus for the mutual market access (MMA) scheme will turn to new products including ETFs and bonds.

South Korea’s bourse has given Doosan Bobcat the go ahead for its IPO, as Ping An Insurance Group’s shareholders also waved through its plan to list Ping An Securities Co in Hong Kong.

Anna Lui has been appointed head of debt capital markets for Hong Kong at ING.

The unveiling of Shenzhen-Hong Kong Stock Connect this week was accompanied by a series of changes to what is already in place in terms of the overall linkage framework. Here is our lowdown on what you need to know about the initiative.

Royal Industries Indonesia is understood to have failed to repay the first principal installment on a $380m loan raised in 2015.

A $405m loan for Blackstone’s acquisition of Indian fintech firm Mphasis has entered general syndication, a couple of months after the borrower expanded the lending group in the senior phase.

China Resources Beer (Holdings) Co has wrapped up a multiple times oversubscribed rights issue, netting HK$9.5bn ($1.2bn), according to a filing with the Hong Kong Stock Exchange.

Malaysia's Serba Dinamik Group is planning to raise as much as MR600m ($150.3m) in an IPO that could hit the market by the end of 2016, according to a source familiar with the matter.

Aluminum Corporation of China (Chalco) is out with a new five year on Thursday, having registered plans to sell a foreign currency bond with the National Development and Reform Commission last month.

Numerix, a provider of cross-asset analytics for derivatives valuations and risk management, has signed up Siam Commercial Bank as its first client in Thailand for a credit valuation adjustment (CVA) solution.

The Chicago Board Options Exchange has obtained regulatory approval for its CBOE Futures Exchange (CFE) to become a registered market operator in Singapore.