Asia Pacific

Xinjiang Transportation Construction Investment Holding Co, a local government financing vehicle (LGFV), priced a modest $160m on Wednesday to refinance an upcoming maturity.

Chinese game streaming platform Huya Inc has launched a potential $550m follow-on offering, less than a year after settling its New York IPO.

Resorts World Las Vegas (RWLV), a subsidiary of Malaysia’s Genting Berhad, priced a larger-than-expected $1bn bond on Tuesday, at a level that was more aggressive than market participants had anticipated.

China's New Century Real Estate Investment Trust is tapping onshore and offshore loan markets for its latest deal.

Streaming platform Bilibili pulled off a combined convertible bond and American Depository Share (ADS) placement this week, raking in $737.4m after the fundraising was increased following strong Asian demand. The deal comes just a week after its larger peer iQiyi sold a record ADS convertible. Jonathan Breen reports.

Singapore-listed Keppel Real Estate Investment Trust (Reit) raised S$200m ($147.9m) from a convertible bond on Tuesday, its first tap of the equity-linked market.

Deutsche Bank has promoted Haitham Ghattas to co-head of its financing and solutions group in Asia Pacific, following Jake Gearhart’s relocation to the US.

Hong Kong’s AIA Group looked to the US market for its latest $1bn bond sale on Tuesday.

BOC Aviation sold its second dollar bond of the year on Tuesday, snapping up $750m from the sale of a 5.5 year trade, after raising $500m from a five year bullet in January.

China’s Jiuquan Iron & Steel (Group) Co, or Jisco for short, was able to find enough demand on Tuesday to cover its first international bond — a deal months in the making — raising $300m.

Geely and Dongfeng-Nissan will return to the Chinese auto loans ABS market next week with a total of Rmb7.4bn ($1.1bn) of paper. But while China’s auto loans ABS market has been dominated by auto finance companies (AFCs), Ping An Bank will soon bring the first internationally rated auto loan ABS originated by a commercial bank.

Global investors lauded the inclusion of Chinese bonds in Bloomberg Barclays’ flagship index this week as the start of a new era, but onshore bankers said it was only a gesture. Perhaps they are both right. The move will force global investors into the unknown and could redraw the map for global bond investment.