Banks

Shanghai-listed SDIC Power Holdings has priced its $200.6m London offering of Global Depository Receipts (GDRs) at the bottom of the marketed range.

VPBank Finance Co, the consumer finance arm of Vietnam Prosperity Joint Stock Commercial Bank, has made a rapid return for a $150m loan.

Société Générale has appointed Yasmine Djeddai as head of sustainable finance for Asia Pacific, a newly created position set up to leverage opportunities around environmental, social and governance-related financing in the region.

ReNew Power, an Indian solar and wind power producer, is looking to the US for a potential IPO, according to a source familiar with the matter.

Nanofilm Technologies International is giving the Singapore Exchange some much-needed IPO activity, launching the first main board listing on the bourse since the beginning of the year.

China Minsheng Banking Corp sold a floating rate bond through its Hong Kong branch last Friday, nabbing $500m from the club-style transaction.

HSBC provided $1.8bn of financing to high carbon companies including Kepco, which is developing new coal plants, in just five deals in the past four months, as it prepared to announce its “net zero ambition” on October 9, an NGO has alleged.

Republic of Austria

Focus was on the public market this week, with supranationals making up the majority of MTN supply.

JP Morgan's Raj Kapadia has joined MUFG as international head of capital markets, as the firm increases its leveraged finance focus. It has also set up a new group to advise clients at the C-suite level on market and macroeconomic developments, led by Tom Joyce, a hire from Deutsche Bank.

With the Australia’s big domestic banks avoiding the capital markets thanks to excess liquidity and cheap central bank funding, Aussie dollar investors are searching for somewhere to park their excess cash – with foreign banks offering one way to pick up the slack.

Citi has appointed Christopher Perkins and Sabrina Wilson as global co-heads of its futures, OTC clearing and FX prime brokerage business, following Jerome Kemp’s retirement from the industry.