Northeast Asia

The debauchery of the Hong Kong Sevens rugby tournament is legendary. Every year friends visit for a long weekend of carousing and occasionally someone watches some rugby.

Chinese internet data centre provider 21Vianet Group raised a $300m note on Tuesday after bondholders agreed to tender over half of an old $300m bond that will become puttable in a few months.

Genius Auto Finance, a joint venture between Geely Automobile Holdings and BNP Paribas Personal Finance, has raised Rmb3bn ($446m) from a three-tranche auto ABS. It was the tightest such deal this year, after receiving plenty of demand from foreign banks.

CCB Financial Leasing, a subsidiary of China Construction Bank, has returned to the syndicated loans market after a four year absence.

China has in the past used panda bears for political gestures, loaning the rare creatures to countries with which it wants to forge ties. The bond market named after them looks similarly endangered, while deals priced there are also nothing more than international relations votives.

China’s Yuexiu Property Co raised HK$1.1bn ($140.2m) from an exchangeable bond sale on April 8, attracting an order book that was more than three times oversubscribed.

Hollysys Automation Technologies is seeking nearly $180m from the offering of additional Nasdaq-listed shares.

Three Chinese property companies battled in the primary market on Monday with competing supply. While high yield issuers have been able to sell bonds at ultra-tight prices of late, the weight of supply has started to force issuer’s to pay more to borrow.

Hong Kong’s Citychamp Watch & Jewellery Group has launched a debut offshore borrowing with a $150m three year facility.

Chinese plastic surgery platform So-Young International is seeking $150m from a US IPO, according to a filing made with the US Securities and Exchange Commission on April 8.

LG Chem, the chemical and battery producing arm of South Korean group LG, launched its first euro and dollar bonds this week, after a long sojourn in the won market. All three tranches, which were also green bonds, were heavily oversubscribed.

The executive chairman of Nomura’s Middle East and North Africa business is among those set to leave the firm as part of a big restructuring. Senior bankers in EMEA capital solutions and convertibles are at risk of redundancy