China

Standard Chartered’s RMB internationalisation index hit a nearly two-year high, State Street entered the RMB qualified foreign institutional with a splash, and index provider IHS Markit partnered with a Chinese clearinghouse for a new set of bond indices.

IMF data shows the renminbi saw a nearly 40% jump in global foreign exchange reserves in Q2, the US Treasury introduced interim rules to monitor Chinese investment in US firms, and the US Treasury is also likely set to name China a currency manipulator as early as next week.

China Fortune Land Development Co added $70m to its existing 2020 bonds in a quick tap this week.

The Ministry of Finance (MoF) second offshore RMB (CNH) auction in 2018 raised Rmb5bn ($720m) on Wednesday. Despite recent RMB depreciation, the demand for CNH bonds remains, albeit in modest amounts.

China’s Niu Technologies has launched bookbuilding for a $103.8m Nasdaq IPO, but despite plenty of pre-deal interest, sources said they did not expect the trade to be a blowout.

Yuexiu Real Estate Investment Trust, a subsidiary of Yuexiu Property Co, is tapping the offshore market for a HK$2.8bn ($357m) loan.

With its latest dollar bond, China's Ministry of Finance may have demonstrated the sovereign’s market access and its credit strength even in a hostile trade environment, but a potential repricing of the China state-owned enterprises (SOEs) curve still seems unlikely, writes Addison Gong.

Four Chinese state-owned enterprises (SOEs) were out in the dollar bond market on Wednesday, looking to seal trades ahead of a China sovereign bond sale on Thursday. But the volatility in the market presented a short-lived opportunity for debt sales and the borrowers’ new notes all slumped in the secondary market.

Hong Kong-listed Logan Property is making a quick return to the offshore loan market for a HK$1.2bn ($153m) borrowing, six months after sealing a HK$900m deal in April.

The speech by US vice president Mike Pence, delivered at the Hudson Institute on October 4, was the closest to a cogent China strategy formulated by the Trump administration since it took over the White House. Market participants should beware, as the picture those words paint is far from pretty.

In this round-up, the People’s Bank of China announced a further cut to banks’ reserve requirement ratio (RRR) on Sunday, the Mainland’s foreign exchange reserves dipped in September, and China’s state council prepares measures to support foreign investment.

Trafigura, the Singaporean commodity trading company, issued its third Panda bond this year on September 28. As for its previous outings, the third tranche was placed in the interbank market as a three year private placement. Meanwhile, The Wharf Holdings and China Gas Holding also made their return to the market in the same month.