Hong Kong SAR

China Aircraft Leasing is back with a $790m borrowing, pushing for a longer tenor to support its aircraft purchasing.

Telecommunications infrastructure giant China Tower found huge demand for its multi-billion-dollar IPO this week as it kicked off bookbuilding in Hong Kong. The deal is a counter-balance to a flood of technology listings in the market this year. Jonathan Breen reports.

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Ascletis Pharma priced its Hong Kong IPO in the middle of expectations on Wednesday, raising HK$3.1bn ($400m) from the city’s inaugural biotechnology offering.

JP Morgan wants to boost the number of Chinese stocks it covers to 200, having poached five research analysts to oversee the market recently, the bank told GlobalRMB.

Hong Kong’s summer typhoon season was the bane of my existence during my working years. Running between meetings in torrential rain, having umbrella wars on crowded pavements, finding out a T8 signal has been raised only after you get to the office: none of it was much fun.

The Hong Kong Stock Exchange is delaying a review into allowing corporations to own shares with weighted voting rights (WVRs), potentially giving the Singapore Exchange, its chief rival, a leg-up in the race to host technology IPOs.

UBS has hired two senior equity capital markets bankers formerly with JP Morgan for its Asia operations.

Hope Education Group’s Hong Kong IPO has been swamped by investors, with the HK$3.2bn ($408m) fundraising covered across the price range by Tuesday evening.

China's Viva Biotech Holdings is planning to float on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, having filed a draft prospectus with the bourse on Monday.

Hope Education Group launched its Hong Kong IPO on Monday. The company is hoping to raise up to HK$3.2bn ($408m), with one cornerstone investor already in the bag.

Mainland telecommunications infrastructure giant China Tower hit the road on Monday to start drumming up interest in its HK$68.1bn ($8.7bn) IPO, according to a senior banker on the deal.