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◆ Europe's corporate bond market braces for US tech issuance surge ◆ Canada makes move for EU regs equivalence but to what end? ◆ Middle East private placements here to stay... but will take up less room
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September redemption cash and shortage of supply support investor demand
Private placements may have hung around much longer than first expected but their dominance may be at an end

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  • Budweiser Brewing Company Apac cracked open its up to HK$76.4bn ($9.8bn) Hong Kong IPO this week, set to be the city’s largest listing in nearly a decade and the world’s biggest so far this year, with early investor orders coming in thick and fast. Jonathan Breen reports.
  • Outstanding dollar bonds from troubled Chinese state-owned commodity trader Tewoo Group hit new lows this week after the company’s subsidiary allegedly missed onshore loan payments.
  • The first four companies to complete IPOs on the new technology board in Shanghai were flooded with phenomenal retail demand of as much as 2,500 times, despite the issuers’ lofty valuations. But an imminent increase in supply could calm the frenzy, writes Rebecca Feng.
  • DCM bankers in Asia are predicting a record year for bond issuance, following a strong first half buoyed by positive investor sentiment and favourable market conditions. Although the year so far shows a complicated story of feast and famine in different parts of the debt market, there is plenty of optimism for the rest of 2019. Morgan Davis reports.
  • The Hong Kong Stock Exchange is sifting through three IPO applications submitted by Chinese companies in three different sectors this week.
  • Hong Kong’s IPO market endured a difficult first half to the year, with trade war tensions and widespread protests fuelling a wave of stock market volatility. But there is plenty of business to get through before the end of 2019. Gina Lee reports.