Greater China

In this round-up, the China Securities Regulatory Commission plans to ask companies to include separate chapters for corporate governance as well as environmental and social responsibilities in their annual financial reports, and three Chinese telecommunications companies will be dropped from the New York Stock Exchange after an unsuccessful appeal.

Property developer and manager Kaisa Group Holdings has raised HK$2.59bn ($332.97m) from shareholders of its Hong Kong listed stock, to be partly used to fund an acquisition.

Three regular dollar bond issuers from China were the first out of the gates to tap investors on Thursday following a long holiday in the Mainland.

In this round-up, China’s trade surplus jumps in the first four months of the year, regulators unveil details for implementing the cross-border Wealth Management Connect pilot scheme between the Mainland, Hong Kong and Macau, and Beijing decides to suspend all activity under the China-Australia Strategic Economic Dialogue.

BOC Aviation has raised $250m from a tap of bonds sold just last month, finding solid support from US investors for its comeback.

China Nonferrous Mining Corp has raised HK$990m ($127.5m) from the sale of a chunk of shares, offloaded following a surge in its stock price.

I was talking to a few loans bankers this week and was surprised when they revealed privately that they had very little interest in social loans. That gave me an idea.

Tiangong International’s share price slid after the Chinese steel production company priced a HK$844m ($108.6m) share placement near the bottom of the marketed range.

SF Real Estate Investment Trust has launched bookbuilding for its Hong Kong listing. It is aiming to raise up to HK$2.68bn ($345.4m) from the city's first Reit IPO in a year and a half.

China’s latest crackdown on some of its largest internet companies should raise a critical question — who are the real beneficiaries of reining in the country’s technology titans?

Tiangong International, a China-based steel producer, is selling up to HK$890m in new shares through a top-up placement, according to a term sheet seen by GlobalCapital Asia.

Bank of America has hired a Hong Kong-based director in its technology, media and telecommunications (TMT) team, GlobalCapital has learnt.