Asia Pacific

Deutsche Bank has hired Jason Cox as a co-head of equity capital markets for Asia Pacific, as the bank lays out the management structure for the region.

Yunnan Provincial Investment Holdings Group (YIG) is set to go on the road for a series of investor meetings as it seeks to gauge interest for a possible dollar bond.

Upcoming commercial paper regulation has triggered a flurry of MTNs from Australian banks, moving away from an asset class in which they have historically been very active.

The Asian syndication of a jumbo loan to back China National Chemical Corp’s (ChemChina) acquisition of Syngenta is seeing interest from many international lenders in Asia. Banks are weighing the benefits of the borrower’s state ownership against the weakness of its financials on a standalone basis, writes Shruti Chaturvedi.

A host of South Korean borrowers are queuing up to sell bonds, with rare corporate names adding diversification to the usual parade of banks and state-owned enterprises. The country’s issuers have always been adept at tapping the widest investor base, but with US interest waning they might be better off staying closer to home.

Browsing through hundreds of pages of financial statements is one way to tell how a bank is doing. But a simpler way would be just to observe the trading floor.

Chinese regional commercial lenders Bank of Tianjin and China Zheshang Bank are looking to raise a combined HK$23.1bn ($3.0bn) through listings in Hong Kong, with both issuers leaning heavily on cornerstone investors.

India's Equitas Holdings is set to become the first small finance bank to list in the country and is lining up a Rp20bn ($300m) float in the first half of the year.

Bank of Communications Financial Leasing sealed a popular $1bn dua tranche offering on Tuesday, drawing a huge crowd of investors amid a lack of dollar bonds from China this year.

The Chinese green bond market is set to blossom after the Shanghai Stock Exchange laid out a framework for corporates this week.

China's securities industry is set to welcome a new player after the regulator approved a joint venture between Chinese and Hong Kong investors — the first under the Mainland and Hong Kong Closer Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA).

Pascal Guttieres, a managing director and head of block trading, global capital markets, for Asia ex-Japan at UBS, has left the bank.