Banks
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Qingdao Jiaozhou Bay Development Group Co, a local government financing vehicle from China's Shandong province, printed a $200m deal this week as it prepares to tackle an imminent bond maturity. -
Hong Kong-listed mining company MMG has tapped equity investors for HK$2.34bn ($302.2m) after boosting the size of the primary share placement.
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Two Chinese real estate borrowers, Agile Group Holdings and Datang Group Holdings, hit the dollar debt market on Monday.
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Vietnam’s VNDirect Securities Corp has tapped the offshore loan market for the first time for a $50m borrowing.
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Deutsche Bank has made three senior hires to its coverage teams for China and Australia.
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Unrated Portugeuse insurer Fidelidade resurrected its plans to print a tier two bond on Friday – almost three years after its first attempt at accessing the format.
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Prospects for companies to issue more social bonds rose this week, with the debut issue by Electricité de France, a borrower with a long and influential track record in the green bond market.
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Mamoura Diversified Global Holding sold a dual tranche dollar bond featuring a Formosa tranche on Thursday. Formosa bonds have been gaining traction among Middle East issuers as they seek to tap into Asian investor demand.
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Acciona, the Spanish infrastructure company, has signed ESG-linked bank lines totalling €3.3bn, as it prepares to float its renewable energy subsidiary Acciona Energía in the coming weeks.
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In a rare international bond issue from Pakistan, state-owned Water and Power Development Authority has issued the country's first responsible investment-labelled bond. It was also Wapda's debut dollar bond.
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Geely Automobile Holdings’ 80%-owned Genius Auto Finance is returning to China’s onshore market with a Rmb4.5bn ($705m) ABS next week, three months after getting away with an aggressive pricing for its first transaction of 2021.
