Asia Pacific

HealthCare Global Enterprises has filed a preliminary prospectus to list in India, with the $125m IPO led by Goldman Sachs and a swath of local banks, including Edelweiss, IDFC, IIFL, Kotak Mahindra Capital and Yes Bank.

It has been mooted for years but investors are finally getting their first taste of covered bonds out of Singapore with the Lion City’s largest bank DBS opening books to a dollar offering on July 29.

BNP Paribas has named a new head of country for Vietnam and chief executive officer of its Ho Chi Minh City branch.

Taiwan’s China Development Financial Holding said is seeking to list its brokerage unit KGI Securities in Hong Kong, under a plan that will see KGI restructuring its Asia Pacific operations in a bid to grow its business lines across Hong Kong and southeast Asia.

Global asset manager Standard Life Investments (SLI) has appointed two multi-asset specialists to the new role of investment director.

China's recent stock market volatility has made some international investors more jittery about putting their money to work in the country's domestic markets, but it is not putting everyone off increase their exposure to Chinese assets.

The London Metal Exchange (LME) has accepted offshore renminbi (CNH) as eligible cash collateral for its clearing house, LME Clear, following regulatory approval from the Bank of England. LME Clear told GlobalRMB that the initiative laid the foundation for further expansion in the future.

Power Finance Corp (PFC) has completed bookbuilding for the divestment of a 5% stake in the company by the Indian government, netting at least Rp16.76bn ($262.06m) with an offering that investors piled into.

China is expected to introduce incentives for green bond issuance as part of its efforts to push forward its developing green bond market. Singapore should do the same, if it wants to bring its sluggish bond market back to life.

This year Chinese securitization has struggled to continue the momentum it showed at the end of 2014, failing to come close to the increased Rmb500bn ($82bn) quota from the regulators. While there is more than one reason behind why issuance has been slow, market participants are still confident the budding asset class will come good by the end of the year.

Just when it seemed like calm was returning to China’s whipsawing stock market, investors were thrown another curveball on Monday, as Shanghai suffered its worst one-day plunge in eight years. While ECM desks in Hong Kong were rattled by the rout, they are not pressing the panic button.

Vietnam’s Sacombank has completed an overseas fundraising of $50m, with a group of five lenders supplying the funds. The loan comes close on the heels of a borrowing by Joint Stock Commercial Bank for Investment and Development of Vietnam (BIDV) that is now in its final leg. An overall lull in the syndicated loan market this year has driven banks to look beyond larger southeast Asian economies for business.