Greater China

Mizuho has lost another three loans bankers in Hong Kong, after a senior director left at the beginning of the year, according to a source close to the situation.

In this round-up, China’s economic growth slows in the second quarter, Beijing launches the world’s largest carbon emission trading scheme, and the top market regulator approves Tencent Holdings’ plan to take US-listed search engine Sogou private.

As Western companies operating in Hong Kong await the details of a warning from the US State Department about the risks of doing business in the special administrative region, analysts say the growing rift between China and the US is putting HSBC in an especially uncomfortable position.

JP Morgan has hired equity capital markets banker Jonathan Paul, the latest in a series of additions to its Asia Pacific ECM team.

Five real estate companies from Greater China made their way into the dollar bond market on Thursday, appealing to investors with short tenors and juicy new issue premiums.

Beijing Enterprises Water Group sold two Panda bonds in China’s exchange market this week, raising Rmb2bn ($309m).

China’s Sichuan Languang Development Co has become the latest property developer to default on a domestic public bond, failing to repay a Rmb900m ($139m) medium term note this week. More defaults from the company are likely, writes Addison Gong.

China’s move to tighten its grip on overseas IPOs of technology companies could be a boon to a handful of other markets in Asia.

CLP Power Hong Kong's latest $300m bond offered a rare bit of stability in a volatile market, making the well-established borrower popular with investors — but only for the right price.

Chinese state-owned enterprise Zhejiang Provincial Energy Group Co has returned to the offshore market for the first time in nearly seven years to print a $500m bond.

Three real estate developers from Greater China raised additional funding from the dollar bond market through opportunistic trades on Tuesday, taking some comfort from the Chinese central bank’s recent move to boost renminbi liquidity.

The liquidity crisis at Chinese real estate issuer Sichuan Languang Development Co went up a notch this week, after it failed to repay Rmb900m ($139m) of domestic bonds.