Asia Pacific

JP Morgan has made new appointments to its China-related businesses, including picking the chief executive for its majority-owned onshore securities joint venture.

Korea’s KEB Hana Bank attracted a €2bn order book for its €500m debut covered bond on Tuesday, boosting hopes for an improvement in the secondary market performance of similar deals from South Korea that offer outsized spread pickups.

Four Chinese high yield property companies had the dollar market to themselves on Monday as a public holiday in the US kept other Asian issuers at bay. But the borrowers raised just modest amounts to tackle some of their refinancing needs.

Provident Square, a shopping mall in the North Point area in Hong Kong, is seeking a HK$1.4bn ($180m) loan for refinancing.

For the first time in eight years, China has handed out new lead underwriting licences to securities houses. While the move will help ambitious firms grab a slice of China’s Rmb102tr ($15.7tr) interbank bond market, they are unlikely to pose a big threat to the competition just yet. Addison Gong reports.

China Construction Bank has wrapped up its first onshore RMBS outing of 2021, starting the year with a relatively small Rmb5.14bn ($793m) transaction under its Jianyuan series.

Primavera Capital Acquisition Corp, a special purpose acquisition company, is set to launch a $300m IPO on the New York Stock Exchange this week, extending a recent boom in Asia-focused Spacs.

MUFG Bank (Hong Kong) has appointed Lin Li as head of global markets research for Asia.

Nomura has added more than 20 private bankers and investment advisers in Hong Kong and Singapore as part of its strategy to boost its wealth management business in Asia and globally.

Credit Suisse has boosted its investment banking operation in Japan by creating a new equity capital markets unit in the country.

SMBC Nikko wants to grow its capital markets and advisory business in EMEA, which is smaller than its parent’s heft in the loan market. It has hired Anthony Bryson, a former NatWest Markets and BNP Paribas banker, to lead the push.

Peter Enns, most recently global co-head of advisory and investment banking coverage (AIBC) at HSBC, is set to be the next chief financial officer at insurer Chubb.