Hong Kong SAR

Kepei Education has raised HK$876.27m ($112m) after pricing its IPO at the mid-point of the indicative range, according to a banker.

Everbright Water, a subsidiary of the state-owned China Everbright Group, has raised Rmb700m ($103m) from a five year Panda bond.

China’s Maoyan Entertainment has changed the timetable of its HK$2.7bn ($344.2m) IPO and roped in three new cornerstone investors, including smartphone giant Xiaomi Corp.

CMB Wing Lung Bank, the Hong Kong-based subsidiary of China Merchants Bank, has printed the year's first Basel III-compliant additional tier one note from Asia, taking $400m from a deal that was priced well inside analysts’ view on fair value.

Mainland firm Changsha Broad Homes Industrial Group has set the ball rolling for a Hong Kong IPO, submitting a draft prospectus to the bourse.

China Development Bank has made a rare visit to the public Hong Kong dollar bond market, raising HK$4.3bn ($548m) from a triple-tranche floating rate transaction that included a 10 times covered decade-long note.

Investors in Hong Kong, Singapore, and the US can now begin to trade onshore Chinese bonds through Bloomberg terminals. The new access channel should slowly boost liquidity in China’s secondary bond market, said onshore bankers.

China-based Maoyan Entertainment, best known for its online movie ticketing platform, kicked off bookbuilding on Friday for a HK$2.7bn ($344.2m) IPO.

Hong Kong-listed Lenovo Group has given Asia its first real taste of equity-linked issuance for the year. The firm raked in $675m from its debut convertible bond (CB) after a flood of investors turned out for the deal, and as bankers gear up for more issuance. Jonathan Breen reports.

The big three international rating agencies have all registered with Chinese regulators so they can join the country’s onshore credit rating industry, but none have started operations yet. Rebecca Feng investigates the reasons behind the holdup.

One of my favourite parts of the winter season used to be the ski trips. Nothing beats swapping the smoggy Hong Kong winters for a cabin on one of Japan’s snow-capped mountains.

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