ICBC

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.

China Fortune Land Co and Sunac China Holdings have closed new dollar bonds, following a pair of successful taps that proved the market is returning to form.

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.

Investors queued up on Thursday to buy Beijing Enterprises Water Group's (BEWG) second Panda bond in two months. The deal came as property Panda issuers are held up by regulators in the pipeline, as China seeks to cool its housing market.

CMB Financial Leasing is back for a $400m bullet loan, shaving 10bp of the margin compared with a larger borrowing sealed last year.

Commodities trader Trafigura has launched a $1.5bn-equivalent dual-currency borrowing into general syndication.

Debt syndicate head exits ANZ – Malhotra named India IB, ECM chief at HSBC – ICBC International appoints syndications head – HSBCBS fined for bond sale breaches

Four issuers, sovereign and sub-sovereign, are drawing closer to their debuts in China’s Panda bond market, as they seek to take advantage of falling yields in the Mainland, sources told GlobalRMB.

The onshore arm of DBS bagged Rmb3bn ($448.3m) from the Chinese bond market on Tuesday, marking its first trade since 2015 that carries a tenor of more than one year. The transaction was also the second bond from a Singaporean lender in the mainland this year.

The Republic of Angola has tapped the $1.25bn 9.375% 2048s it sold in May for a further $500m, marking the first dollar bond printed in the CEEMEA market for over a month. The deal was anchored by reverse enquiry.

Onshore DCM bankers are having a busy week in the Panda bond market. Two returning issuers have lined up onshore transactions this week, as they seek to profit from looser liquidity and falling yields in China.

David Zhu, a former loan syndications banker at Deutsche Bank, has joined ICBC International, GlobalCapital Asia understands.