Asia Pacific

Anton Oilfield Services Group sold a $150m bond this week in an effort to tackle its debt maturity profile.

Three Chinese real estate developers sold green and sustainable bonds on Monday, adding further momentum to the booming asset class.

ICBC International Holdings priced a three year bond on Monday with the support of a 22-member syndicate team.

Indian food delivery platform Zomato has wrapped up its IPO 38.25 times subscribed. A stream of orders poured in from all corners of the market, with foreign institutions driving the deal.

China Lesso Group, a building materials manufacturer, has mandated five banks for a new money loan, returning to the market after two years.

South Korea’s Kakao Pay is revising the prospectus for its up to W1.63tr ($1.42bn) listing after the country’s securities regulator requested it to add more information to the documents, in the latest sign of an increasingly heavy-handed approach to the IPO market.

In this round-up, the Chinese central bank releases the first white paper for its digital currency, regulators led by the Cyberspace Administration of China conduct an on-site inspection at Didi Chuxing Technology, and the takeover period of nine financial firms linked to beleaguered conglomerate Tomorrow Holding has been extended.

The Philippines' treasury department is readying a dollar bond offering for retail investors as part of its efforts to shore up cash for the government's recovery and resilience programmes.

Mizuho has lost another three loans bankers in Hong Kong, after a senior director left at the beginning of the year, according to a source close to the situation.

In this round-up, China’s economic growth slows in the second quarter, Beijing launches the world’s largest carbon emission trading scheme, and the top market regulator approves Tencent Holdings’ plan to take US-listed search engine Sogou private.

As Western companies operating in Hong Kong await the details of a warning from the US State Department about the risks of doing business in the special administrative region, analysts say the growing rift between China and the US is putting HSBC in an especially uncomfortable position.

Bukalapak has met with a wave of demand for its Rph21.9tr ($1.5bn) IPO, set to be Indonesia's largest listing, according to a source familiar with the matter.