Banks

Chinese property companies Times China Holdings and Golden Wheel Tiandi Holdings Co took a combined $470m from the bond market on Monday.

Agile Group Holdings, a Chinese property company, is planning to launch a HK$3.242bn ($418m) refinancing loan into general syndication in early July.

WuXi Biologics (Cayman) bagged HK$6.17bn ($795m) on Monday after boosting the size of a new equity issuance.

China’s Archosaur Games set in motion its HK$2.17bn ($280.5m) IPO on Tuesday, joined by Cathay Media and Education Group and poultry producer Shandong Fengxiang.

China Bohai Bank has jumped into Hong Kong’s bustling IPO market, opening books for a HK$14.3bn ($1.85bn) listing.

Zhejiang Changxing Financial Holdings Group Co opted for a club-style execution for its $160m maiden international bond on Monday.

DFS Deutsche Flugsicherung, the German air traffic controller, launched a Schuldschein deal on Monday, on the hunt for at least €250m.

The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) hit screens with a $1bn three year on Monday.

Europe’s high grade bond market provided some mixed indications of sentiment on Monday with the deals for Takeda and SEE seeing notable differences in demand, leaving syndicate bankers trying to work out what this means for what is expected to be a busy week of issuance.

DirectBooks, which plans to bring a new issuance platform for bond markets, has not ruled out the possibility of a partnership with other providers.

Korean Housing Finance Corporation (KHFC) has launched its second social covered bond of the year in euros, setting the spread for its deal in the middle of its guidance range.

NN Bank unveiled plans on Monday to issue its first covered bond from its newly published soft-bullet programme. At the same time, Berlin Hyp has mandated lead managers for the sale of a new green covered bond.