CITIC Securities

Citic Securities has made Zhang Youjun its new chairman. Tthe appointment follows the disappearance of a string of top bankers due to regulatory probes.

Volkswagen kicked off the Chinese auto ABS market this week, raising Rmb2.99bn ($460m) from the sector’s tightest priced transaction yet.

The Chinese auto ABS market is revving up for 2016 with Volkswagen poised to launch a Rmb2.99bn ($460m) Driver China Three next week.

It has not been an easy year for investors. Extreme bouts of volatility have damaged sentiment. Expectations of a US rate hike have buckled nerves. It is in times like this that banks really prove their value – and the most valuable of all this year has been UBS, according to voters in Asiamoney's Brokers Poll. Matthew Thomas reports.

Asian analysts face one of the most exciting markets in the world. But they also face one of the most complex, dealing with a region that is vulnerable to macro factors while having country-specific risk factors in almost every sector. The following winners of Asiamoney's 2015 Brokers Poll proved adept at the juggling act this year.

Citic Securities, one of China's top brokerages, is in the headlines for the wrong reasons again after two of its top bankers went missing.

CRCC High-Tech Equipment Corp, a unit of Chinese state-owned China Railway Construction Corp, has raised HK$2.8bn ($361m) from its IPO in Hong Kong after pricing near the bottom of the range.

Bank of Zhengzhou has signed on about six cornerstone investors to anchor the bulk of its HK$5.56bn ($717.42m) IPO in Hong Kong, as the leads look to kick off bookbuilding on a strong note.

For the third part of our annual awards, we cover Best Local Currency Bond, Best Securitization, Best High Yield Bond, Best Investment Grade Corporate Bond, Best Financial Bond, Best Sovereign Bond, Best Local Currency Bond House and Best G3 Bond House.

Huishang Bank Corp has come a step closer to launching its H-share private placement in Hong Kong, after the China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC) approved the sale on Monday.

China Energy Engineering Corp’s HK$14bn ($1.81bn) Hong Kong IPO, which priced at the bottom of the range on Thursday, was comfortably covered even though retail investors failed to take up all the shares they were entitled to.

Philippine property developer DM Wenceslao and Associates, which was expected to open books for its IPO of around Ps10.73bn ($227m) this week, has pulled the plug on the transaction until next year.