Asia Pacific
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Chinese healthcare duo MicroPort CardioFlow Medtech Corp and Suzhou Basecare Medical Corp have kicked off their Hong Kong IPOs after a week of pre-marketing. -
Three Chinese property companies announced dollar bond transactions on Monday, continuing the run of issuance seen from the high yield market since the beginning of the year.
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Indonesia's Tower Bersama Infrastructure took an aggressive pricing approach to a tap of its dollar bond on Monday. But when investor response fell short of expectations, the issuer was forced to pull its fundraising.
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SAIC-GMAC Automotive Finance Co is already eyeing its second auto loan securitization deal of the year, just a couple of weeks after kickstarting China’s auto ABS market for 2021.
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The Republic of Armenia has mandated banks to arrange a dollar bond just months after its brief conflict with Azerbaijan over the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh territory. The sovereign is the latest high yielding emerging market government to tap debt markets.
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China Evergrande New Energy Vehicle Group's share price soared over 50% on Monday after the firm sold HK$26bn ($3.35bn) of new stock to a handful of Chinese high net worth investors.
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India's Future Retail failed to make an interest payment on its dollar bonds last Friday, making it the second time it has missed a coupon on its debut notes as it struggles to overcome Covid-related woes.
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Chinese video-sharing platform Kuaishou Technology, a rival to TikTok parent ByteDance, has started testing investor appetite for Hong Kong's largest IPO in over two years as it seeks HK$42bn ($5.42bn).
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China's Avic International Holding Corp had to offer investors a premium for its latest dollar bond, to compensate them for the risk associated with its inclusion on a US sanctions list.
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In this round-up, Beijing plans to increase oversight of debt management and corporate governance at Chinese lenders, Hong Kong is ready to include Star-listed A-shares into the Stock Connect, and the securities regulator gives the nod to set up a new futures exchange in Guangzhou.
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Taiwanese banks are increasingly asking their loans teams to avoid participating in deals led by global investment banks, in line with guidance given by the finance ministry last year and over fears of being burnt again by possible defaults.
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The Japan Bank for International Cooperation has picked backs for a sterling five year benchmark, replacing its last bond in the currency — a trade issued in February 2014 that matured in December 2020.
