Greater China
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ANZ has hired Carson Tse from HSBC as a senior manager in its loan syndications team in Hong Kong.
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Heavy bond supply last week from Chinese property developers took a toll on Fantasia Holdings Group Co, which failed to tighten pricing on a $200m bond on Monday. But China Hongqiao Group, an aluminium maker, found solid response from investors due to a lack of issuance from industrial credits.
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JP Morgan has appointed Mark Fiteny to the newly created job of head of new economy for Asia Pacific.
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Six months after receiving the licence to rate Chinese domestic issuers and their issuance programmes, S&P Global (China) Ratings has provided its first rating in the Mainland.
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Emerging market consumer finance company Home Credit filed its draft prospectus in Hong Kong on Monday, setting its $1bn-plus IPO in motion, according to a source with direct knowledge of the matter.
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China’s National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) has tightened restrictions on Mainland property companies raising offshore bonds, prompting DCM bankers to take stock and determine the impact on the debt market.
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China’s Wanda Sports Group began a week-long bookbuild on Monday morning, with a plan to raise as much as $500m on the Nasdaq.
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BNP Paribas has hired a former executive director at Natixis to lead its sustainable capital markets team for Asia Pacific.
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Budweiser Brewing Company Apac shelved what could have been the largest float globally so far this year and the biggest in nearly a decade in Hong Kong after investors rejected its punchy valuation target, dealing a blow to the city’s IPO market.
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Nine Dragons Paper has moved a HK$3.9bn ($498m) loan into general syndication, giving a small group of banks two weeks to make a decision on the deal.
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In this round-up, GDP growth slowed in the second quarter, exports to the US dropped further and total social financing growth showed the need for more policy easing
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CLSA’s former chief executive Jonathan Slone has joined Jefferies Group as chairman of Asia, adding to the growing exodus of staff from the Citic Securities-backed bank to the US firm.