Asia Pacific
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Hong Kong’s new biotechnology-friendly listing regime attracted IPO filings this week from China-based Innovent Biologics and MicuRx Pharmaceuticals. -
Anagh Chaudhry, a member of the Asia ECM syndicate team at Deutsche Bank, has resigned from the firm.
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Lossmaking Babytree Group, a Chinese online platform for expecting parents, filed an IPO application in Hong Kong on Thursday.
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Health and Happiness International Holdings, previously known as Biostime International Holdings, is seeking an up to $350m loan through Goldman Sachs.
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51 Credit Card opened books on Friday for its HK$1.4bn ($173.9m) listing in Hong Kong, with 10 firms in the syndicate.
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More and more investors like to calculate the carbon footprints of their portfolios, and some have to by law. But what is the carbon footprint of government bonds?
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Friday marks one year since the launch of the Task Force on Climate-Related Financial Disclosure’s final guidelines — a blueprint for companies to report to investors how they are facing up to climate change.
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Beijing-based investment bank Chinese Renaissance has set the ball rolling on its Hong Kong IPO.
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The Asian dollar loan market is set for some new competitors. A number of Chinese joint stock commercial banks are seeking approvals to set up branches in Hong Kong, with a view to arranging syndicated deals. What impact will this have? Pan Yue finds out.
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China’s Ministry of Finance is prepping a comeback to the dollar bond market, less than a year after ending a 13-year hiatus. But can it replicate the success of its 2017 blockbuster transaction? Morgan Davis and Noah Sin find out.
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Chinese mobile streaming platform Inke hit the road with its Hong Kong IPO this week armed with anchor demand as it seeks up HK$1.5bn ($192.6m).
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Banks are obsessed with going digital. Once-staid institutions fall over each other trying to show how disruptive and revolutionary they can be. Local lenders, keen to get in on the act, pitch journalists elaborate stories about their online lending ‘revolution’, which usually amounts to little more than a handful of deals.
