China Development Bank top stories

• Chinese issuers tap bond market to tackle virus woes

  

  A mix of Chinese policy banks, hospital builders and pharmaceuticals companies have put the domestic bond market to use to combat the coronavirus outbreak as the death toll nears 600. More mainland issuers are also readying deals as the country’s regulators introduce a faster registration process for such issuance, write Addison Gong and Rebecca Feng.

  • 06 Feb 2020

• Chinese issuers prep coronavirus bonds to combat disease

  Chinese policy banks and corporations are planning to sell renminbi bonds onshore to battle the coronavirus outbreak, using the capital markets as a source of key funding during a challenging time for the financial industry.

  • 05 Feb 2020

• Bond flurry continues but Vietnamese bank falls short

  The overwhelming supply of international bonds from Asia continued on Tuesday, as issuers dashed to raise dollars, and in one case, sterling. But not every borrower was able to cross the finish line.

  • 15 Jan 2020

• CDB goes global for onshore green bond

  China Development Bank hired a dozen foreign banks for its latest green bond, raising Rmb10bn ($1.4bn) from a domestic market deal that attracted major offshore demand. Rebecca Feng reports.

  • 14 Nov 2019

• Maybank’s second BRI Panda gets warm welcome

  Maybank completed its second Rmb2bn ($291.5m) Belt and Road Panda trade on Thursday, pricing both tranches at the bottom of the price range.

  • 21 Jun 2019

• Maybank returns for bigger Panda

  Maybank plans to return to the Chinese debt market on Wednesday with a Rmb2bn ($289m) Panda bond offering after a two-year hiatus. This time around, the Malaysian lender has roped in a policy bank as the trade’s lead underwriter.

  • 18 Jun 2019

• CDBL scores tight price for $700m bond

  China Development Bank Financial Leasing Co (CDBL) has raised $700m from the bond market, leaning on anchor orders to squeeze a tight final price.

  • 05 Mar 2019

• CDB lights up HK dollar market with rare triple-trancher

  China Development Bank has made a rare visit to the public Hong Kong dollar bond market, raising HK$4.3bn ($548m) from a triple-tranche floating rate transaction that included a 10 times covered decade-long note.

  • 18 Jan 2019

• HK Airlines faces doubts over servicing looming maturity

  Hong Kong Airlines is set to provide the year’s first test case of the strength of the Asian debt market as investors lose faith in the carrier’s ability to repay a $550m bond due in just over two weeks.

  • 07 Jan 2019

• CDB keeps market engaged with dual-currency outing

  Policy lender China Development Bank printed a dual-currency, three-tranche transaction on Tuesday, raising $2.4bn-equivalent. While it paid just a couple of basis points of new issue premium for the dollar bonds amid a short-lived market rally, demand for the euro portion exceeded expectations.

  • 05 Dec 2018