Banks

Industrial Bank Co’s Hong Kong branch has priced a dual-currency green bond, offering a pick-up of around 10bp over recent prints from China’s big four lenders.

Bank of China returned to the bond market with a multi-tranche, multi-currency bond this week, making clear that its funding needs and its role as a flag-bearer of Chinese policy overseas are inextricably linked. Morgan Davis reports.

Beijing Enterprises Group is in the market for a HK$4.5bn ($575m) five year term loan launched through eight banks.

China’s Babytree Group has thrown open books for a potential HK$2.2bn ($280.9m) IPO, paring down the size from its original $800m target, according to a banker close to the deal.

Fosun Tourism Group, which is being spun-off by Chinese conglomerate Fosun International, has launched investor education for its Hong Kong IPO as the market falters amid continued volatility.

Chinese steel e-commerce platform Zhaogang.com has kept its plans for a Hong Kong listing alive, resubmitting an updated prospectus to the bourse on Tuesday.

Just over 100 days since Ivan Duque took office as Colombia’s president, the South American country has appointed a new head of public credit and national treasury.

NordLB will launch a Schuldschein issuance platform alongside a fintech firm on Wednesday, according to many Schuldschein participants.

World Bank hit both the euro and dollar markets on Tuesday for its first syndicated green bond in over three years. Onlooking bankers were surprised by the level of demand for the euro tranche given what they claimed was aggressive pricing.

Duke Energy Corp became the latest US utility to issue green bonds last week, when it priced a $1bn dual tranche offering.

UniCredit’s German subsidiary, HVB, did well to issue a €750m seven year Pfandbrief on Tuesday, but with Italian headline risk flaring up again, it may have paid slightly over the odds.

Steinhoff’s multi-billion euro equivalent debt restructuring saga took another step forward this week, with the company receiving High Court approval to press on with a scheme of arrangement related to its US subsidiary Mattress Firm.