Bank of China

Bank of China (London) has mandated banks for what is being described as the first green covered bond from a Chinese bank in a transaction that will be backed by climate debt.

China Great Wall Asset Management Corp priced a dual-tranche offering on Thursday, finding strong demand for its deal. The relatively small size and the timing of the transaction worked in favour of the bad debt manager, according to bankers.

China Great Wall Asset Management Corp launched its dual-tranche offering on Thursday morning.

Chinese ABS buyers are gearing themselves up for a rare visit from Toyota. The company’s China auto leasing arm is poised to launch a Rmb3bn ($445m) offering this week following a more than two year absence.

China Great Wall International Holdings III and Bank of Communications Financial Leasing Co are preparing to hit the road for their respective senior unsecured dollar offerings.

Hong Kong's Cheung Kong Property Holdings is looking to take advantage of a recent rating upgrade to ready a bond offering.

A $3.5bn dual-tranche borrowing to back Tencent Holdings' acquisition of a stake in mobile gaming company Supercell, has been allocated. Three Chinese mandated lead arrangers and bookrunners held on to 60% of the loan at the end of general syndication.

Asia is gearing up for a bumper week of IPOs, with two $2bn deals launching on Monday and other smaller-sized floats vying for investor attention in what has been an action-packed October.

Some eight banks that arranged Saudi Arabia’s $10bn loan in May have secured berths on the sovereign's bond extravaganza that is due to kick off this week.

Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank is raising a $300m new money loan from Asian lenders to tap a previously unused source of funding.

The Chinese Golden Week holidays meant not a lot was going in China, but there was still plenty of renminbi news occurring in the rest of the world. In this round-up, more updates on Shenzhen Connect rules, China-domiciled funds land on Clearstream, and Fred Bergsten says China is not a currency manipulator. Plus, a recap of our coverage this week.

Five banks have clubbed together to supply a $300m three year term loan to Hong Kong-listed company Sino Biopharmaceutical.