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Qatari dairy company’s rights issue struggles to get done
Like many senior sukuk from the Gulf, local investors will drive demand
Order books are more concentrated than before the war, said a banker involved
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Debt capital markets bankers had been hoping for at least two years that Colombian oil company Ecopetrol could be persuaded to issue a bond. When the government-owned borrower finally opted to tap bond markets last week for the first time since 2016, it caught the eye by doing so with oil prices at historic lows, in the middle of the coronavirus pandemic and, unusually for a Lat Am issuer, on a Friday.
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Chinese software company Kingsoft Corp bagged HK$3.1bn ($399.9m) on Thursday from a five year convertible bond. It was the first equity-linked trade in Hong Kong since the coronavirus outbreak in January.
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Credit Suisse has been hit hard by the alleged accounting scandal at Nasdaq-listed Luckin Coffee, which is understood to be behind one of the largest loans covered in the bank’s loan loss provisions for the first quarter of 2020.
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In this round-up, Shanghai-based companies are being encouraged to take advantage of the city’s Star board, China has pledged another $30m to the World Health Organization and the State Council has urged banks to boost lending to micro and small enterprises.
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PSA International, a Singaporean port operator, raised $650m from a 10 year bond that appealed to investors because of its strong credentials.
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Kookmin Bank has become the first issuer from South Korea to sell an international public bond to combat the fallout of the Covid-19 pandemic. While virus-response deals are still just a tiny part of Asia’s debt market, bankers say it is set to grow.
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