Asia Pacific

Canvest Environmental Protection Group Co, a Hong Kong-based waste-to-energy company, has returned to the loan market for a HK$1.97bn ($251.6m) unsecured deal. In an unusual move, the firm will postpone its covenant tests for the first six months. Pan Yue reports.

Hong Kong-listed oil company Hilong Holding pushed back the exchange deadline for its 2020 bond for the fourth time this week, leaving only a weekend between the exchange deadline and the notes’ maturity on Monday.

Chinese chemical company China National Bluestar (Group) Co raised $500m from a subordinated perpetual bond on Wednesday.

The Hong Kong Stock Exchange is creating a sustainable and green exchange to centralise data and information from the sector in the region.

Spare a thought for your colleagues in London or New York. Most of them are still working from home, juggling over-crowded, pointless conference calls with parental oversight and even the odd bit of real work. Those of us in Hong Kong are back to normal.

China Construction Bank Corp has sold the first Basel III-compliant tier two bond from China since the global outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic, raising $2bn.

Chinese real estate developer Zhongliang Holdings Group Co took $250m from a sub-one year bond on Wednesday, prioritising size over price for the deal.

Singapore’s CapitaLand has become the first company to raise a loan benchmarked against the Singapore overnight average rate (Sora), as the market prepares for a transition away from Libor and the country’s equivalent, the Singapore dollar swap offer rate (Sor).

The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank has approved loans totalling $1.2bn to India and Pakistan to help the two countries combat the Covid-19 pandemic.

Barrick Gold Corp has raised HK$1.63bn ($209.7m) after paring most of its stake in Chinese firm Shandong Gold Corp.

China National Petroleum Corp (CNPC) has returned to the dollar bond market after a six year absence, selling a three-tranche deal that generated $21bn of orders at the peak.

China’s Shandong Ruyi Technology Group Co has once again convinced investors to extend the interest payment of a Rmb1bn ($141m) domestic bond.