Greater China

Investors queued up on Thursday to buy Beijing Enterprises Water Group's (BEWG) second Panda bond in two months. The deal came as property Panda issuers are held up by regulators in the pipeline, as China seeks to cool its housing market.

SF Holding Co grabbed $500m from its inaugural bond on Thursday, enticing investors with its high rating and scarcity value.

Agile Group Holdings snapped up $400m from a tap on Thursday, with investors’ response sending a strong signal to the high yield market, according to bankers.

Two Chinese technology firms listing in the US have been hotly received by investors, with both well covered since their launches earlier in the week.

China’s Texhong Textile Group has returned to the offshore loan market for a HK$1bn ($127m) fundraising.

CMB Financial Leasing is back for a $400m bullet loan, shaving 10bp of the margin compared with a larger borrowing sealed last year.

Qilu Expressway’s underwriters have stepped in after the company's HK$1.3bn ($159.3m) Hong Kong IPO fell short in both the institutional and retail tranches.

To do, or not to do? That appears to be the question plaguing China’s stock exchanges when it comes to including weighted voting rights shares on the Stock Connect’s southbound trading channel. A rather vague consensus has been reached with the Hong Kong bourse, but what does this mean for the city’s equities markets? Jonathan Breen finds out.

Hong Kong’s Securities and Futures Commission has sanctioned a former Standard Chartered executive in Hong Kong for IPO-related offences.

Signs of loosening liquidity in China’s onshore market is making international loans syndications bankers ponder the impact on their businesses, writes Pan Yue.

Citi has made a handful of senior level changes to its loans and acquisition finance team in Asia Pacific, according to three internal memos seen by GlobalCapital Asia.

Senior investment bankers jumping ship to fintech firms, often to advise them on their financing plans, has become a relatively common theme in Asia. But one former banker appears to have taken this to a whole new level.