Asia Pacific
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China Evergrande Group’s stock price plummeted on Wednesday after the issuer slashed an overnight share sale to nearly half its initial target, raising HK$4.3bn ($554.9m). -
Malaysia’s Sunway Real Estate Investment Trust (Reit) has raised MR710m ($171.2m) from a follow-on offering of new stock.
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Shinhan Card Co ended a long hiatus from the dollar bond market on Tuesday as it joined a number of other South Korean borrowers which have turned to the debt market to raise Covid-19 relief funds.
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China Merchants Commerce Financial Leasing Co (CMC Leasing) made its debut in the dollar bond market on Tuesday, selling a $350m five year deal.
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Kaspi, the Kazakh fintech and e-commerce company, will price its IPO at the top of its price range. It will also grow the deal to around $1bn to meet high levels of investor demand.
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Trading levels given are bid-side spreads versus mid-swaps and/or an underlying benchmark and bid-yields from the close of business on Monday, October 12. The source for secondary trading levels is ICE Data Services
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China Evergrande Group, a property developer, hit investors with a jumbo top-up placement on Tuesday, eyeing proceeds of up to HK$8.4bn ($1.1bn), according to a term sheet seen by GlobalCapital Asia.
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Top Glove Corp, the world’s largest rubber glove maker, is considering a dual primary listing on Hong Kong’s stock exchange.
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US senator Marco Rubio wants his government to find a way to delay the listing of Ant Group, even though it is happening outside of the US. The move would undoubtedly be bad news for US banks but it also appears to offer little upside to politicians.
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China’s State Administration for Market Regulation (Samr) has imposed a Rmb2m ($298,000) fine on each of Luckin Coffee’s two main operating entities in China and three other companies, the highest possible penalty under the country’s competition law.
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Simcere Pharmaceutical Group has begun its Hong Kong listing, opening books for the up-to HK$3.57bn ($460.6m) deal.
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Fitch Rating’s China arm, Fitch (China) Bohua Credit Ratings, assigned its first domestic rating this week, five months after securing a licence in the world’s second largest bond market.
