Greater China

Bitcoin mining hardware maker Canaan has ditched a listing in Hong Kong SAR in favour of the US, filing for an up to $400m IPO of American Depository Shares (ADS) on Nasdaq.

Meinian Onehealth Healthcare Holdings Co’s only offshore bond rocketed in the secondary market after Chinese technology giant Alibaba Group Holding became its second largest shareholder.

ESR Cayman has raised HK$12.6bn ($1.6bn) from its Hong Kong IPO after pricing the deal at the mid-point of guidance and exercising the greenshoe in full, according to a source familiar with the matter.

Small appliance maker JS Global Lifestyle Co has shelved its potential HK$3.62bn ($462.2m) Hong Kong listing after a week of bookbuilding.

Crédit Agricole is planning to sell its first Panda bond in late November, according to two sources. It will be the maiden renminbi-denominated bond to be sold in China by a French bank and the first syndicated Panda from the European country.

Shanghai Kindly Medical Instruments Co has hit the road for a Hong Kong IPO, targeting proceeds of up to HK$832m ($106m).

New World Development Co reopened a perpetual bond from earlier this year that came with an aggressive fixed-for-life structure. It raised an additional $400m ahead of yet another widely-anticipated Federal Reserve interest rate cut this week.

NetEase-backed Chinese education platform Youdao fell by more than 25% on its debut on the New York Stock Exchange last Friday, after pricing its listing and concurrent private placement in the top half of guidance.

In this round-up, the Chinese Communist Party’s leaders will meet this week, the US and China held a phone call to discuss a trade deal over the weekend and fully foreign-owned Qingdao Yicai received a mutual fund sales licence.

Citi has named Michael Paulus as Hong Kong-based head of the Asia Pacific public sector group.

In this round-up, the big five Chinese banks have boosted lending to small and micro enterprises by 30% this year, the Chinese Ministry of Finance is planning to issue a euro bond and China’s ranking in ease of doing business jumped to 31 from 46.

In this round-up, China and the US are hammering out a draft of a mini trade deal, the regulators have switched around leaders at state-owned bad debt managers and the new foreign investment law has received praise from foreign investors.