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Business has sagged in the third quarter, but the pipeline is busy, despite an intractable war
Private bonds are now being offered in the open market wider than where public deals trade
Even as USTs stay near 5%, supply expected to pick up

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  • The Hong Kong Stock Exchange and its counterparts in Shanghai and Shenzhen have reached a deal to include companies with dual-class shares on the southbound trading of Stock Connect.
  • Chinese telecommunication software provider AsiaInfo Technologies raised HK$900m ($115m) this week after pricing its flotation at the bottom of the indicative range.
  • Tencent Music Entertainment Group (TME) gave investors a year-end treat this week with 2018’s last billion-dollar IPO from an Asian issuer. It was paid back with a near 8% jump in its stock price on the first day of trading. But to succeed the firm had to cut its fundraising target and get realistic on pricing. Jonathan Breen reports.
  • Chinese sportswear company Anta Sports Products is in talks with its six-strong bank group, mulling the syndication strategy for a €2.2bn five year loan to support the acquisition of Finland’s Amer Sports Oyj.
  • Santander has picked up an ex-Deutsche Bank private debt banker for its MTN syndicate desk.
  • As many as nine local government financing vehicles (LGFVs) came to the offshore bond market this week, relying on anchor orders to price deals before their regulatory quota expires. But as 2018 nears its end, the pressure the sector faces is far from over, writes Addison Gong.