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Ant Group, the Chinese financial technology giant behind popular mobile payments app Alipay, has set in motion plans to go public through IPOs in Hong Kong and Shanghai, in what are set to be landmark deals for Asia's equity markets.

Shenzhen-listed Hangzhou Tigermed Consulting has caught the attention of international and local investors for its secondary listing on the Hong Kong exchange, set to be worth at least $1bn.

Chinese property company Agile Group Holdings has launched a HK$3.242bn ($418m) refinancing loan into syndication.

Hong Kong’s stock exchange has appointed two legal and consulting veterans to senior positions in its IPO vetting unit and a new compliance team.

Jiumaojiu International Holdings bagged HK$839.3m ($108.3m) from a top-up share placement on Wednesday, with a group of employees also pulling off a concurrent block trade.

Samson Paper Co has breached two covenants on a HK$780m ($100m) loan from 2017, with lenders still waiting for more information from the company.

This year has been a strange one on many fronts, but one of the oddest things we’ve been forced to confront is the virtual meeting.

Goodman Hong Kong Logistics Fund1 (GHKLF), a warehouse property owner, found overwhelming investor support for its first dollar bond in six years.

A veteran Citi banker who had been with the US firm for nearly two decades has joined CMB International Singapore.

China Bohai Bank has priced its Hong Kong listing just off the floor of the marketed range to raise HK$13.8bn ($1.78bn).

Chinese private equity firm Yunfeng Capital trimmed its position in Alibaba Health Information Technology with an upsized block trade on Thursday, its second sale of the stock this year.

Bohai Bank wrapped up a billion-dollar-plus Hong Kong IPO this week. The issuer, one of China’s last remaining joint-stock commercial banks to go public, rode the tail end of a hot period for the city’s IPO market. Jonathan Breen reports.