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Nomura has hired Pei Shen Chou as joint head of its mergers and acquisition team in Asia, in a move to grow the bank’s M&A business in the region.

Sino Biopharmaceutical issued a zero coupon convertible bond on Wednesday, boosting the size to €750m as demand poured in from across Asia, Europe and the US, according to multiple sources close to the deal.

Does complaining about technology make me a curmudgeon? Then so be it.

Ant Financial’s planned Hong Kong listing is just one of many jumbo deals that could land on the bourse this year. But few issuers will have such a clear path to success. The Alibaba halo should not be underestimated.

Shangri-La Asia raised S$250m ($185.3) from the Singapore dollar bond market on Tuesday, after seeing an opportunity for unrated issuers in the city.

Three companies from the Greater China region sealed bonds on Tuesday, likely to be the last batch of issuers to tap the debt market before the Chinese New Year break begins. No Asian borrowers launched dollar deals on Wednesday.

Macquarie Group has appointed Charles Yonts as head of Asian ESG research, a newly created position.

Chinese real estate developer Beijing Capital Land has raised HK$925.3m ($119.1m) from the H-share portion of a three-tranche rights issue.

Hong Kong got a blow from Moody’s on Monday after the agency downgraded the special administrative region’s rating to Aa3 from Aa2, largely because of the lack of an effective response from the government to months of volatility. Rashmi Kumar reports.

A flurry of accelerated bookbuilds hit the Hong Kong market on Thursday night as issuers and investors squeeze through the last window for fundraising before companies go into earnings blackout and the Chinese New Year holidays.

Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (Asia) has hired two former Hang Seng loans banker to join its global capital finance department in Hong Kong.

AIIB made its dim sum debut this week into a booming market. A slew of deals has been sold in recent weeks, with more paper printed in last the last 10 days than in the whole of any other year, except for 2019.