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Guangdong Hengjian Investment Holding is marketing its debut dollar bond while Bank of China's Hong Kong branch is taking bids for a dual tranche floating rate transaction. -
India’s Rural Electrification Corp found investors more interested in its government links than its bond’s green label when it debuted in the offshore market on Thursday with a $450m deal.
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HSBC has received approval from China Securities Regulatory Commission to set up a majority-owned joint venture securities company — HSBC Qianhai Securities — in the Mainland. The regulatory clearance comes about a year-and-a-half after the UK lender announced the JV.
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Modern Land (China) Co grabbed $130m from its green bond on Thursday, but the pricing of the notes did not move throughout bookbuilding as investors were less than impressed with the high yield credit.
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Public sector bankers have backed claims by Greece’s finance minister that the country could return to the capital markets this year “with or without QE”. The fact that another periphery sovereign, Spain, was able to print a stellar trade on Tuesday despite comments by European Central Bank president Mario Draghi sending markets in a tizzy about the possible end of QE further bolstered the statement, bankers added. Craig McGlashan reports.
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All of the 34 banks taking this year’s Federal Reserve stress tests passed for the first time in the test’s history. For the European-owned firms, that reflects concerted efforts to improve their qualitative processes, while for the major US firms, the result has set off a bonanza of capital returns.
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Two public transport operators offered deals to the sterling market this week, with varying success. Demand was strong for both deals, which had similar tenors, but one enjoyed a smoother pricing ride than the other.
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HSBC and Austria’s Raiffeisen Bank International benefited from low funding costs in the additional tier one (AT1) market this week, despite the fact that the asset class has been through a tricky month and people are starting think hard about the direction of global interest rates.
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Swiss life sciences firm Lonza launched a €300m debut Schuldschein on Monday, offering dollar and euro tranches to attract, among others, Singaporean, Malaysian and other Asian lenders looking to lend dollars.
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Daimler had the new issue corporate bond space to itself on Monday, but the deal it achieved was still a spectacular result for many reasons. Pushing out to new, longer maturities for the volume of bonds sold was an excellent outcome for one of the more frequent corporate issuers, and could support a more permanent long dated market in euros, writes Nigel Owen.
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The launch of a S$2.7bn ($1.95bn) IPO by NetLink Trust this week marks an important turning point in the fortunes of Singapore’s quiet equity capital market, with bankers hoping that more issuers may be tempted to take the plunge in the second half of 2017, write Aidan Gregory and Jonathan Breen.
