Asia Pacific

Redco Properties Group offered investors a hefty 11% coupon for its new bond on Thursday, using up the last of its offshore fundraising quota to raise $220m.

GLP and First Abu Dhabi Bank both tapped investors in the renminbi bond market on Thursday. The Singapore-based logistics facilities provider took Rmb200m ($28.6m) from a Panda while the Middle Eastern firm headed to the Formosa market.

India’s Adani Green Energy is in talks with banks for project finance of more than $1bn, which some bankers think is ambitious.

Credit Suisse is bringing its disparate markets and investment banking operations into one division, it announced on Thursday, as new chief executive Thomas Gottstein draws out a fresh structure for the bank. The bank is aiming to create savings to be invested elsewhere, but did not give much detail about where cuts would be made.

Australia announced a bumper funding programme for 2020-21 on Thursday, almost double its previous effort. Two days earlier, the sovereign surprised the market with a long end deal that attracted a substantial amount of offshore interest.

Electric vehicle manufacturer Li Auto sealed a scorching $1.1bn Nasdaq IPO this week, pricing above the marketed range to make it the largest US listing by a Chinese company in nearly two years. The deal proved there is still interest among mainland firms to list in the US, despite rising hostilities between the two countries, writes Jonathan Breen.

Two Indian companies have struggled to find demand in syndication for deals that were priced before Covid-19 shut down the country. But bankers are optimistic about the fate of India’s offshore loans market — as long as borrowers accept a rise in funding costs. Pan Yue reports.

A flexible approach to its $750m bond paid off for India’s Adani Ports and Special Economic Zone, which navigated weak market sentiment and demanding investors by changing its tenor, size and price expectations. Morgan Davis reports.

China Development Bank has raised Rmb10bn ($1.43bn) from a domestic green bond that won international certification. The policy bank made the rare move to sell the deal in different primary markets simultaneously, a further step in the closer union between China’s two big onshore debt markets. Addison Gong and Rebecca Feng report.

Mindspace Business Parks Real Estate Investment Trust wrapped up its Rp45bn ($601.3m) this week, treating India to its second listing in the asset class.

State Grid Corp of China, the world’s largest utility company, raised the equivalent of around $3.3bn from a four-tranche dollar and euro deal on Wednesday.

Chinese property companies Sunac China Holdings and Ronshine China Holdings came to the dollar market on Wednesday, both with four non-call two year bonds. But a smaller deal size helped Ronshine get away with a tight price.