Banks
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Neusoft Education Technology, a private higher education provider, got the go-ahead for its IPO this week from the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. -
Crédit Agricole printed its long-awaited Rmb1bn ($146m) Panda bond this week, after delaying its offering by nearly three months due to volatility in China’s onshore debt market.
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Chinese local government financing vehicle (LGFV) Guangzhou Metro Group Co priced a tight dual-tranche deal on Thursday, including a 10 year tranche for the first time, in a bid to take advantage of falling yields.
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Philippine real estate company Filinvest Development Corp raised $200m from a five year bond on Thursday.
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ENN Energy Holdings, one of China’s largest clean energy distributors, raised $750m on Thursday with its green bond debut.
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Chinese battery maker Contemporary Amperex Technology Co (CATL) made its debut in the bond market on Thursday with a $1.5bn dual tranche deal that saw demand of nearly $14bn coming in.
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Chinese property developer Xinyuan Real Estate Co, whose outstanding bonds have suffered because of the Covid pandemic, opted for size over price for its $300m return this week.
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Chinese hospitality company Huazhu Group has launched a secondary offering in Hong Kong, the latest in a growing number of dual listings on the bourse.
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The European Central Bank is overstepping the mark with its investment grade corporate bond buying and must start easing off, or it risks detaching the market from economic reality, market participants said this week. Mike Turner reports.
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Ford, the US car maker, offered investment grade bond investors a chance to dip into high yield on Tuesday. And its rival, Nissan Motor, is lining up a seven tranche behemoth bond issue that will create a euro curve out to eight years.
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Issuance in Europe’s high grade corporate market trended towards high beta names this week, with a spate of deals from riskier names, including the first outing for German fallen angel ZF Freidrichshafen since its downgrade.
