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  • The Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission has fired a warning shot at banks, with both Standard Chartered and UBS being investigated for their roles as IPO sponsors. The move has left other banks wondering which one will be next and comes at a time when the IPO market is teetering. John Loh reports.
  • ECM bankers in Hong Kong are playing the blame game after a string of recent IPOs disappointed in secondary, fuelling angst among hedge funds and fears that this could hurt the year-end pipeline.
  • Varta AG, the German micro-batteries manufacturer spun out of the historic Varta Group in 2002, has joined the small group of European companies braving the choppy waters of the IPO market.
  • South Korea is in the midst of a serious political scandal that could threaten the president, but it seems to have had little impact on the IPOs of Clio Cosmetics Co and Doosan Bobcat.
  • Hydropower firm China Yangtze Power Co debuted in the equity-linked bond market this week, raising $521.9m with a dual currency exchangeable bond — a product rarely seen in Asia. The liquid nature of the underlying stock and the credit quality of the issuer helped reel in demand, writes Jonathan Breen.
  • Into a gloomy equity capital market where the expected line-up of deals has been decimated by investor risk-aversion, Sirius Minerals today launched a rare and challenging transaction, combining a capital increase and convertible bond that amount to a $940m project financing for a potash mine in the north of England.
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