Asia Pacific
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China’s Haitong Securities priced a dual-currency transaction on Thursday, heading to the euro market for cheaper funding. Another issuer, Peking University Founder Group, was looking to price an up to €100m deal on Friday. -
Fosun Tourism Group, a subsidiary of Chinese conglomerate Fosun International, has raked in HK$3.34bn after sealing its IPO at the bottom of the indicative range.
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Mainland firm China East Education Holdings is seeking the greenlight to launch an IPO in Hong Kong.
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In this round-up, Trump was confident China would deliver on promises from G20 dinner, China signed several cooperation agreements in Panama and Argentina, China Financial Futures Exchange (CFFEX) planned to lift bans on trading stock-index futures to boost market activity.
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WuXi AppTec priced its IPO at the mid-point of the range to raise HK$7.92bn ($1.01bn), despite the deal being oversubscribed at the upper end of guidance, according to a source close to the listing.
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Software company AsiaInfo Technologies launched bookbuilding this week for a potential HK$1.16bn ($148.5m) listing in Hong Kong, after securing Baidu’s holding company and a Lenovo Group subsidiary as cornerstone investors.
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In this round-up, China International Capital Corporation UK (CICC UK) became Stock Connect’s first depository receipt conversion institution, S&P and FTSE Russell added China A-shares to their indices, and October capital outflows from China jumped while outflows from other emerging markets stayed flat.
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A set of voluntary Green Investment Principles for the Belt and Road has been published, intended to help China’s huge overseas investment project the Belt and Road Initiative “low carbon and sustainable”.
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‘Tis the season to be jolly, right? Apparently not anymore. Christmas merriment appears to have been cancelled, or at least hugely dampened, this year.
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After its successful debut in the Chinese ABS market, Genius Auto Finance, the joint venture between Geely Automobile Holdings and BNP Paribas Personal Finance, scored an equally popular follow-up deal at an even tighter price.
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The Republic of Indonesia seized an opportunistic window after the G20 summit to raise $3bn in its annual dollar funding exercise. While the issuer’s timing was impeccable, it was still forced to pay a double-digit premium to attract cautious investors. Morgan Davis reports.
