Asia Pacific

Shanghai Dongzheng Automotive Finance Co has filed a draft prospectus with the Hong Kong Stock Exchange for its IPO.

Welcome back to our Monday newsletter. In this round-up, Allianz gets approval for first wholly foreign-owned enterprise (Wfoe) in the insurance sector, foreign bond investors will receive tax exemptions, and PBoC Shanghai branch is lifting lending quotas to help small and private enterprises.

In this round-up, People’s Bank of China (PBoC) signs a currency swap with Indonesia, Shanghai and Shenzhen Stock Exchanges publish rules to limit the length of trading halts, and the Chinese authorities publish new rules to boost the domestic free trade zones (FTZs).

A number of sub-investment grade rated property developers and local government financing vehicles (LGFVs) used private-style executions for their public transactions this week — an increasingly popular approach among Chinese bond issuers.

Sinochem Energy has delayed its Hong Kong listing until 2019, according to a source close to the deal.

In this round-up, China and the Philippines sign Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for a new Panda issuance, survey finds that 64% of Chinese investors choose to invest domestically rather than overseas, and foreign firms are getting approvals to help China build a nationwide credit information monitoring system.

Yanzhou Coal Mining Co pursued a $275m deal on Thursday, altering its initial fundraising goals to score a tightly priced transaction.

US president Donald Trump may be the loudest critic of Chinese policy, but he is far from the only one. The European Chamber of Commerce (Eurocham) tells GlobalRMB that ‘optimism is slowly turning to cynicism’ as China stalls on its reform promises.

ANZ is relocating a senior leveraged and acquisition finance banker and former head of Asia loan syndications from Singapore to Sydney.

With covered bond spreads likely to go wider, ANZ’s decision to take as much size from the market as possible was logical. The short and rare four year tenor was instrumental in boosting appeal for the bond issue, but it also helped that the issuer took the trouble to engage with investors with a roadshow beforehand.

Huatai Securities, the Chinese asset management business, has filed an intention to float document for a $500m London listing of global depositary receipts, the first under the new Shanghai-London Stock Connect segment of the London Stock Exchange.

Payment-in-kind has taken a turn for the worse in Asia’s bond market, with flight tickets and pork being offered instead of cash. Aviophobic vegetarians are up in arms.