Asia Pacific

Changsha Broad Homes Industrial Group has launched the deal roadshow for its Hong Kong listing. It is looking to raise up to HK$1.52bn ($194m).

UBS Securities, the Swiss bank’s China onshore joint venture securities firm, has named Eugene Qian as chairman, succeeding Di He who is stepping down after two decades at the bank, according to an internal memo seen by GlobalCapital Asia's sister publication GlobalRMB.

CNI Capital, a wholly-owned subsidiary of state-owned China National Nuclear Corp, sold a Rmb1bn ($141m) three year dim sum bond on Thursday. The pricing of the unrated offshore renminbi deal was tighter than expected, said bankers.

Lenders have until Friday to respond to an amendment and extension of Tsinghua Unigroup’s two old borrowings from 2017. The banks were given just two weeks to respond.

Shanghai Pudong Development Bank Co priced a $300m floating rate note (FRN) at just a marginal premium over the curve of the big four Chinese lenders.

With the growth of socially responsible investing (SRI), coal companies are having an increasingly hard time appealing to bond investors. But Indonesia's Adaro Energy wooed accounts to its $750m deal with its efforts to clean up its business.

Air Astana, the flag carrier of Kazakhstan, remains committed to an IPO as part of the Kazakh government’s privatisation programme that is intended to deepen the country’s fledgling capital markets, although the timing of the deal is yet to be determined.

Philippine conglomerate Ayala Corp raised $400m this week, after bringing fixed-for-life perpetuals back to the Asian bond market.

Bankers and journalists often complain about how much things have changed in Hong Kong, with long lunches and even longer nights making way for rigid meetings, PowerPoint presentations and low-fat lattes. Taipan was reminded of the old ways this week ─ and his head is still throbbing.

The Republic of Indonesia raised more than $2bn from a dual-currency bond sale on Wednesday, taking some of the market by surprise with its opportunistic move.

India’s non-banking financial companies have been under fire for the past year, after the collapse of Infrastructure Leasing & Financial Services (IL&FS) in 2018 spooked investors and dragged down the sector. But Muthoot Finance, a gold financier, proved this week that some capital-starved NBFCs can still find an audience in the international bond market. Morgan Davis reports.

Huawei Technologies Co, a centrepiece in the ongoing US-China trade war, bagged Rmb3bn ($425m) from its first-ever onshore bond on Wednesday. Although the issuance opens up a new and cheap funding channel for the company, it will have to return to the dollar bond market to refinance its outstanding bond soon, bankers said.