Banks

Chinese gaming firm CMGE Technology Group is planning to list in Hong Kong, filing a draft prospectus with the city’s bourse on Tuesday.

Two Chinese bond issuers found opposite responses to their green outings on Tuesday. While China General Nuclear Power Corp opted for a euro-denominated deal to target green dedicated funds in Europe, Beijing Capital Group found less traction with sustainability-focused investors for its dollar trade.

China International Capital Corp (Hong Kong) has priced a $400m three year floating rate note in line with market expectations, paying just a single-digit new issue premium.

The Chilean arm of Spanish lender Santander returned to bond markets on Tuesday with a Sfr115m ($118m) Swiss franc bond maturing in five years and three months.

GlobalCapital announced the winners of its Sustainable and Responsible Capital Markets Awards 2018 in Amsterdam on Tuesday evening. This year’s two sovereign debut green finance issues, from Indonesia and Belgium, won Deals of the Year in their regions, and there were double laurels for Danone, in both the bond and loan markets.

Swiss healthcare company Roche took advantage of upcoming redemptions and a new investor base following its rating upgrade by Moody’s, to raise CHF900m ($922m) from a dual tranche offering.

Banco Santander brought the first sterling deal in more than six weeks with a non-preferred senior transaction, in a rare instance of a Spanish bank choosing to access funding in that currency.

The dollar market for public sector borrowers is set to welcome the return of one of its biggest issuers, as deal flow restarted after Monday’s US Labor Day holiday.

China General Nuclear Power Corporation sold its second green bond in the euro market on Tuesday, nine months after its first success in the format. Last time the company sold green alongside five and 10 year conventional dollar bonds and this time it used a similar combination, replacing the 10 year dollar option with 30 year notes.

Spanish telecoms company Telefónica sold its second euro-denominated senior bond of 2018, benefitting from one its quietest years of issuance with a single digit new issue premium.

Italian gas distributor 2i Rete Gas has dared to test the corporate bond market’s appetite for issuers from the country with a seven year trade. With its government budget on the horizon, some market participants said this deal could make or break the market for Italian issuance in 2018.

JP Morgan has made two senior hires to for its equity capital markets team with Nick Skaff and Ismail Iraqi joining from Deutsche Bank to cover emerging markets.