Greater China

Browsing through hundreds of pages of financial statements is one way to tell how a bank is doing. But a simpler way would be just to observe the trading floor.

Chinese regional commercial lenders Bank of Tianjin and China Zheshang Bank are looking to raise a combined HK$23.1bn ($3.0bn) through listings in Hong Kong, with both issuers leaning heavily on cornerstone investors.

Bank of Communications Financial Leasing sealed a popular $1bn dua tranche offering on Tuesday, drawing a huge crowd of investors amid a lack of dollar bonds from China this year.

The Chinese green bond market is set to blossom after the Shanghai Stock Exchange laid out a framework for corporates this week.

China's securities industry is set to welcome a new player after the regulator approved a joint venture between Chinese and Hong Kong investors — the first under the Mainland and Hong Kong Closer Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA).

Pascal Guttieres, a managing director and head of block trading, global capital markets, for Asia ex-Japan at UBS, has left the bank.

The Panda bond market is looking crowded this week. Joining German car maker Daimler is Singapore’s DBS Bank which is marketing its debut Panda, several sources have told GlobalRMB.

AMTD Group has successfully wrapped up its debut outing to the international debt market, selling a $110m three year trade on Wednesday.

German car maker Daimler is planning to return to China’s onshore Panda bond market with a private placement in the interbank bond market, several sources familiar with the deal have told GlobalCapital Asia's sister publication GlobalRMB.

Market participants have been sceptical about the Hong Kong Exchange's (HKEX) plans for a Bond Connect with China ever since the idea was first floated in late 2014. Eighteen months later, the opening up of China’s interbank bond market (CIBM) has thrown up more questions about the scheme’s viability.

ABN Amro became the first foreign lender to issue a tier two bond in Taiwan’s Formosa market following a change in rules at the start of the year.

German car maker Daimler is planning to return to China’s onshore Panda bond market with a private placement offering in the interbank bond market, several sources familiar to the deal have told GlobalRMB.