Greater China

Chinese property developer Fantasia Holdings Group Co reopened a bond initially sold three years ago in a bid to lower its funding costs, taking $200m from the tap.

Chinese property developer Yanlord Land Group has increased the size of its latest borrowing to $1.1bn-equivalent after receiving strong response during syndication.

US president Donald Trump’s sudden targeting of Tencent Holdings and its flagship app WeChat last week was vague in the extreme. But what is clear is the Trump administration’s increasing willingness to go after China’s tech darlings. That should not be ignored.

Taiwan’s Taiflex Scientific Co, an electronic parts and components maker, has closed a dual-currency borrowing of NT$2.5bn ($85m) with eight banks.

GlobalCapital and Standard Chartered hosted a virtual roundtable on the China high yield debt market at the end of July as the second part of a 2020 roundtable series. The first was conducted in mid-April. The market has seen drastic changes in the months since. We gathered together a group of leading high yield bond experts to find out how they have dealt with those changes.

Taiwan’s Quanta Computer has returned to the loan market for a tightly priced $1bn deal, slicing both the margin and participation fees on offer.

Troubled Chinese bond issuer Yihua Enterprise (Group) Co will hold a meeting with investors on Wednesday, where it will promise to pay the overdue interest on a domestic medium-term note before the end of September.

China Education Group Holding has raised HK$2bn ($260m) after boosting the size of a top-up share placement.

US-listed OneConnect Financial Technology Co, a Chinese company whose stock price has doubled this year, is tapping equity investors for new funds.

Ke Holdings, which operates Chinese real estate platform Beike, is set to close the orderbook for its $2bn US listing a day earlier than planned, according to a source close to the deal.

Chinese electric vehicle manufacturer XPeng is aiming to raise up to $100m from a listing on the New York Stock Exchange.

The China Securities Regulatory Commission has published new rules for issuers of ‘company bonds’, offering a clearer timeline on the registration process. It also scrapped a credit rating requirement and lowered the bar for retail investors to invest in the market.