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  • A year ago, Hong Kong’s stock exchange (HKEX) added a new chapter to its regulations, allowing pre-revenue biotechnology companies to list. The historic move has turned the city into the biotech IPO hub of Asia. But its fortune could change if the Mainland’s new Nasdaq-style Shanghai tech board, which offers similar pre-revenue concessions, stems the flow of its primarily Chinese issuers.
  • SC Lowy, a boutique bank headquartered in Hong Kong, has hired Tristan Laurencin as head trader for EMEA loans.
  • China made big strides developing its green bond market last year, moving closer to international standards and producing a volume of issuance that placed it only behind the United States. But this year, the market has gone backwards. What has happened to Chinese green bond issuance?
  • The first batch of seven funds looking to invest in the new Shanghai tech board saw a total of more than Rmb100bn ($14.8bn) coming in on the first day they opened books.
  • Just two Asian borrowers visited the international debt market on Monday, raising nearly a combined $800m ahead of the public holiday on May 1.
  • Fitch has downgraded Tewoo Group, a Chinese state-owned commodities trader, by six notches, citing the company’s weak liquidity and high leverage. The Tianjin government’s financial ability to support its related entities was also brought into question.