Asia Pacific

SciClone Pharmaceutical (Holdings), a Chinese biopharmaceutical company that claims to have developed a drug to treat Covid-19, is seeking the greenlight to list in Hong Kong.

Vietnamese food and beverage company Masan Group Corp is in talks with banks for a new borrowing, planning a return to the loan market after seven years.

Chinese pet-focused e-commerce site Boqii Holding filed its listing documents for a US IPO on Tuesday, but Citigroup, one of the original lead banks on the deal, is now no longer in the syndicate.

Singapore’s United Overseas Bank has bagged the lowest yield globally for a Basel-III compliant tier two dollar bond, breaking the record set by its peer Oversea-Chinese Banking Corp just last week.

Chindata Group Holdings, iHuman and Yalla Group filed IPO paperwork with the US regulator on Tuesday as they prepare to float on New York stock exchanges.

Mercedes-Benz Auto Finance scored a tightly priced Rmb6.26bn ($914m) dual tranche auto securitization trade on Tuesday. The senior tranche was priced inside comparable levels, a first for the issuer and a rarity in China's auto ABS market.

BOC Aviation paid investors a small premium on Tuesday to seal a $750m decade bond.

China Minsheng Bank has appointed Kenny Chik as head of syndication and acquisition finance, replacing Wang Sheau Huei, who has left the Chinese lender, according to a source familiar with the move.

The Queensland Treasury Corporation (QTC) announced on Monday that it plans to borrow A$21bn ($15.2bn) during its 2020/21 fiscal year, which runs between July 1 and June 30. Alongside this, the state signalled its intention to look at issuing green, foreign currency and long term debt to complement its benchmark programme.

Singapore-based special purpose acquisition company (Spac) Aspirational Consumer Lifestyle Corp is looking to raise $225m from a listing on the New York Stock Exchange.

Green dollar bonds from Chinese high yield real estate developers are rare, but property companies have the potential to push the green market in the region to the next level — and see some pricing benefits in the process.

The Republic of Poland, the first European country to issue a Panda bond in August 2016, has finished the documentation process for its second onshore renminbi offering, GlobalCapital China understands.