Asia Pacific

Standard Chartered has replaced Carsten Stoehr, the bank’s former global head of financial market sales, who resigned from the firm last week.

Bank of Jinzhou Co commenced investor education on Tuesday for its $600m IPO in Hong Kong, having appointed five banks as joint global co-ordinators.

A $328.6m loan for poultry feed producer Charoen Pokphand (CP) Indonesia has seen nine lenders join, as the borrower sealed most of the funds in its local currency while capping the dollar portion at $100m.

Chinese company Yirendai, an online consumer finance marketplace, is eyeing the New York Stock Exchange for a $100m IPO and has a filed a preliminary prospectus for the listing.

Société Générale has transferred Sylvie Leclercq from Europe to Hong Kong to head up the French lender’s export finance unit in the city.

UNV Digital Technologies has begun gauging investor appetite for its $150m IPO in Hong Kong, as the Bain Capital-backed firm gets ready to list.

Dali Foods Group Co priced its HK$8.87bn ($1.14bn) Hong Kong IPO close to the bottom of the range, as price sensitive investors called the shots.

Wenzhou Kangning Hospital priced its Hong Kong IPO at the top of guidance on November 13, leaving investors breathless as they flooded the HK$681m ($88m) deal with orders worth billions of dollars.

Videocon Hydrocarbon, which engages in oil and gas exploration, is tapping the loan market for a $75m three year facility and is counting on a standby letter of credit to attract liquidity.

China's Ministry of Finance (MoF) is set to auction the second batch of CNH government bonds this year in Hong Kong on November 23. Although it seems the renminbi has secured its inclusion in the IMF’s Special Drawing Rights (SDR) basket, market participants doubt this will give an immediate boost to the CNH market.

Eastspring Investments, the Asian asset management arm of Prudential, has added four people to its equity team in Hong Kong as it looks to expand resources across a number of investment strategies.

Citic Envirotech has set up a subordinated securities issuance programme in multiple currencies, while Sun Hung Kai Properties (SHKP) is eyeing an offshore bond return.