Hong Kong SAR

Spare a thought for your colleagues in London or New York. Most of them are still working from home, juggling over-crowded, pointless conference calls with parental oversight and even the odd bit of real work. Those of us in Hong Kong are back to normal.

Barrick Gold Corp has raised HK$1.63bn ($209.7m) after paring most of its stake in Chinese firm Shandong Gold Corp.

A spate of real estate and government-linked borrowers from Greater China flocked to the dollar bond market on Tuesday.

China Pacific Insurance (Group) Co has raised $1.81bn from its listing of Global Depository Receipts, becoming just the second company to use the London-Shanghai Stock Connect scheme.

Fast food restaurant franchiser Yum China Holdings is in the process of mandating banks for a secondary listing in Hong Kong, according to sources familiar with the matter.

Castle Peak Power Co, a Hong Kong power generator, sealed a $350m energy transition bond on Monday. It was one of just a handful of these bonds sold in the world, and the second from Asia.

Hygeia Healthcare Holdings has kicked off the roadshow for its up to HK$2.22bn ($286.4m) IPO, joining Hong Kong’s increasingly hot listing market.

First Abu Dhabi Bank bagged Rmb1.4bn ($198m) on Monday from its largest offshore renminbi bond to date.

Kangji Medical Holdings kicked off bookbuilding for its Hong Kong listing on Monday, aiming to raise up to HK$3.12bn ($404m) in proceeds.

Hong Kong power generator Castle Peak Power Co began marketing an energy transition bond on Monday morning, marking just the second transition bond to be sold in Asia.

Shanghai-based China Pacific Insurance (Group) Co has launched its IPO on the London Stock Exchange, firming up the deal size and the syndicate group on the listing. The deal was covered on Friday, its first day of bookbuild.

Belle International pocketed HK$2.91bn ($375m) this week after trimming its stake in subsidiary, Topsports International Holdings.