Northeast Asia

Industrial Securities (Hong Kong) Financial Holdings, Zhengzhou Zhongrui Industrial Group Co and Shandong Iron & Steel Group Co priced international bonds during the last days of 2019, capping a strong year for Asia’s debt market.

It is set to be a busy start to 2020 for the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, with three live IPOs in the market. The most recent launch came from Shanghai Gench Education Group, which hit the road with a HK$773m ($99.2m) deal on Thursday.

Chinese solar power operator Panda Green Energy Group has extended the deadline of a distressed exchange offer. The new note issuance will now be finalised in the same week that its $350m bond becomes due.

In this round-up, Chinese president Xi Jinping headed to Macau for the 20th anniversary of the handover, the National People’s Congress will hold a fourth reading of the Securities Law next week and the People’s Bank of China (PBoC) has lowered the 14-day reverse repo rate.

In this round-up, state buyers are set to bail out Shandong-based Hengfeng Bank, the renminbi’s international usage rebounded in November after a slight drop in October, and Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group’s securities brokerage affiliate plans to set up a wholly-owned China unit.

Guangzhou R&F Properties, a Hong Kong-listed Chinese real estate developer, raised HK$3.7bn ($475m) from a placement on Thursday evening in one of the last ECM deals of the year in the region.

Cigarette packaging printer Amvig Holdings has closed its HK$1.15bn ($147m) refinancing loan.

Powerlong Commercial Management Holdings has priced its IPO near the top of the range, despite coming to the market at the end of the year and amid a fair bit of supply from Chinese property management companies.

In the final part of GlobalCapital China’s awards announcement, we discuss the key innovation of 2019, and reveal the individual that has made the greatest contribution to reforming and internationalising the Chinese onshore market.

JP Morgan Securities (China) has received the securities and futures business permit from the China Securities Regulatory Commission, which will allow it to begin operations in the Mainland.

Bond investors are set to start the new year with some trepidation, due to uncertainty around the US-China trade relationship and rising defaults in the Mainland. While there will be opportunities, not all issuers will have easy access to liquidity as buyers turn selective.

In the second part of GlobalCapital China’s awards announcement, we reveal the winning banks across Panda bonds, G3 bonds and ABS, as well as the best bank for securities services and the most impressive law firm.