China

The China Securities Regulatory Commission said it will continue to play an active role in managing the supply of IPOs in Shanghai and Shenzhen, as the authorities back-pedal on market reforms after last week’s equity chaos.

The long-running saga surrounding Kaisa Group Holdings’ offshore debt looks like it could finally come to an end following the launch of a debt restructuring programme.

There is no denying markets have given the RMB a rough start to the year. But despite the depreciation pressure on the RMB, the real trend seems to be more market-driven volatility rather than persistent weakening, according to some.

China's Evergrande Real Estate Group started bookbuilding for a new 2019 offering with a fixed price on January 11. The deal comes amid Moody's announcement that it has downgraded the issuer and its debt because of increased financial risk.

5y CNY swaps have been well offered as Chinese equities continue their sell-off. In the short-end though, 1y swaps have been bid on concerns about the yuan. In Hong Kong today HIBOR spiked sharply on CNH liquidity tightness spurred by reports of indirect PBOC intervention, writes Deidre Yeung.

Citi has created a consolidated Asia Pacific debt syndicate team as it seeks to take advantage of the growing relevance of local currency markets, according to an internal memo seen by GlobalCapital Asia.

China’s reopened Panda bond market is continuing to gather momentum with the first issues from two offshore listed companies. The deals are the first Pandas sold into the country’s exchange bond market and mark a new issuer frontier for the product.

China’s attempts to allow markets forces to play a bigger role in the currency seemed to have backfired this week with both the onshore RMB (CNY) and its offshore (CNH) counterpart experiencing a tumultuous ride. Further depreciation is expected but the big unknown remains how policy makers will act.

In the first RMB round-up of 2016, Hong Kong RMB deposits and cross-border trade settlement recovered in November, RQFII programme added three new entities in December 2015, the Hong Kong and Singapore exchanges both saw strong futures trading volumes in December, ICBC managed nearly Rmb1tr in RMB-won trades, and Zimbabwe will make RMB one of its legal tenders this year. Plus, a recap of GlobalRMB’s top stories this week.

China’s onshore FX market has kicked off its new trading hours this week which allow for trading until 11.30pm. By while the regulator’s move is well intentioned, FX traders who are working the new night shift say the market faces some fundamental problems.

China has suspended its new policy of using ‘circuit breakers’ to stop trading when its stockmarkets fall too fast, after a week when the market twice fell 7% and was shut down for the rest of the day.

Hungary will meet investors in Hong Kong and Singapore as it prepares to issue the first ever sovereign dim sum bond from the CEEMEA region.