BNP Paribas

Tsinghua University Science Park, or Tuspark, raised $350m from its bond sale on Wednesday, notably helped by 14 bookrunners.

The Canadian province of Quebec has mandated four banks, including two international firms, to underwrite its first bond in China, a finance official at the provincial government told GlobalRMB.

The need to offer healthy new issue premiums is not holding back additional tier one bond issuers this summer. Barclays reopened the market for the product in dollars on Tuesday, to be quickly followed by BNP Paribas.

UBS has nabbed a banker from BNP Paribas for its emerging markets DCM team.

A Shanghai-based joint venture between carmaker Geely and BNP Paribas is to enter the Chinese auto loans securitization market for the first time next week. The company will test demand with a Rmb1.94bn ($284m) deal, selling just one tranche to investors in the interbank bond market.

Mutual Energy, an energy infrastructure company headquartered in Belfast, has sold £200m ($256.98m) of private placement notes in its first private debt outing.

BNP Paribas has hired a new banker for its Asia syndicate team in Hong Kong.

South Korean internet provider SK Broadband Co. hit the dollar bond market on Monday, taking advantage of the stable backdrop for a $300m trade.

The lending arm of Ford’s China operation took advantage of bullish sentiments in the onshore market on August 2, sealing a Rmb4.5bn ($662.3m) securitization. Bankers say Ford managed to price below Nissan, which offered a similar ABS recently, thanks to a major policy announcement that emerged last week.

Pascal Fischer has started his new post of head of global markets in Asia-Pacific at BNP Paribas, based in Hong Kong.

Shangde Qizhi Education Group has set the ball rolling for a Hong Kong IPO, having filed a draft prospectus with the city’s bourse on Thursday.

Mainland telecommunications infrastructure giant China Tower raised HK$54.3bn ($6.9bn) this week after getting its mammoth float across the line at the bottom of guidance.