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China Gas Holdings has kicked off a top-up share placement, eyeing up to HK$12.05bn ($1.55bn), according to terms seen by GlobalCapital Asia.

Natixis has made a handful of hires to its global markets team in Asia Pacific, to support its corporate and investment banking business in the region.

The controlling shareholder of Anta Sports Products has offloaded some of its stake through a HK$11.57bn ($1.49bn) block trade, capitalising on recent gains in the sportswear company’s stock.

Food delivery giant Meituan has raised close to $10bn from an overnight sale of shares and convertible bonds, getting solid interest from investors and raising money to ramp up its investment into the technology part of its business.

Hong Kong-listed ESR Cayman, a logistics real estate company, has raised a $400m dual-tranche borrowing.

Citi is planning to hire around 2,300 people to support the expansion of its wealth management business in Asia Pacific, as the bank undertakes a restructuring that boosts focus on its four wealth centres.

Trip.com Group's shares rose on its debut on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange on Monday, following a popular billion-dollar secondary listing by the Chinese travel company.

Chinese company Zhaoke Ophthalmology has kicked off a Hong Kong IPO worth up to HK$2.1bn ($270m), becoming the latest biotechnology company to sell shares on the bourse.

A planned restructuring of China’s Ant Group into a financial holding company has raised questions — and fuelled speculation — about when the firm is able to revive its derailed IPO and how it will be valued. Addison Gong reports.

Imagine trying to explain stock markets to an alien or an intelligent caveman, someone who has grown up in a world without the flicker of red and green numbers, the theatre of shareholder meetings, the strange spectacle of Jim Cramer’s pre-scheduled rage.

Alan Roch, Standard Chartered's head of bond syndication for Asia, has resigned after about three years at the bank.

An affiliate of department store Sogo Hong Kong has returned to the loan market for a HK$8bn ($1bn) deal to refinance a borrowing from 2016.