Asia Pacific

In the second part of GlobalCapital China’s awards announcement, we reveal the winning banks across Panda bonds, G3 bonds and ABS, as well as the best bank for securities services and the most impressive law firm.

In the fourth and final instalment of GlobalCapital Asia’s capital markets awards announcements, find out which firms have been named the Best Asian Investment Bank and the Best Investment Bank in the region for 2019.

MTN bankers are tipping Formosa and senior non-preferred debt for big things in 2020. Both markets, along with MTNs as a whole, have had an underwhelming year as issuance failed to live up to the promise of a busy 2018.

Lenovo Group, one of the world’s largest computer and electronics makers, lost a long time financing partner when IBM decided to close its factoring operation for hardware equipment manufacturers in February, GlobalCapital can reveal. But Lenovo moved fast to replace this with one of the largest trade receivables securitizations ever signed. The $3bn deal included selling junior notes to three investors to maintain full off balance sheet treatment for the assets and debt.

A study from the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) has found that the premium that banks must pay to issue bail-inable debt is heavily pro-cyclical, compelling issuers to take advantage of “good times” to build up their levels of loss-absorbing capacity.

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Volumes in China’s securitization market surged this year, with expectations high that the traditional auto ABS and residential mortgage-backed securities (RMBS) markets will continue strongly in 2020. But cracks are starting to appear in some of the other faster-growing asset types, writes Rebecca Feng.

Southeast Asia is set to be an important source of business for loans bankers in 2020 as they search for opportunities outside of the slowing markets of China and India. A spurt in both inbound and outbound acquisition financings in the region is on the cards, writes Pan Yue.

Hong Kong-based personal loan provider PrimeCredit has issued $200m of asset backed securities, making it the first public term securitization in Hong Kong in more than a decade.

Debt bankers and investors focused on Indonesia are eager to put the year behind them, after elections and a big dollar bond default dented issuance volumes. But they are optimistic about 2020, believing that the southeast Asian country could live up to its potential as a hotbed of high yield borrowing. Morgan Davis reports.

Environmental protection services provider Shenzhen Leoking Environmental Group has set the ball rolling for a Hong Kong listing, having filed draft documents with the bourse.

Ucommune Group Holdings, a shared work-space provider similar to US firm WeWork, is planning to list on the New York Stock Exchange, according to a filing with the US regulator.