Northeast Asia
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South Korean supermarket chain Homeplus Stores has cancelled the potential W1.73tr ($1.5bn) IPO of its Homeplus Real Estate Investment Trust. -
China National Travel Service Group Corp made a rare visit to the to the bond market, raising $500m from a deal that was priced inside fair value and continued to grind tighter in the secondary market on the first day of trading.
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Chinese online education company Koolearn Technology Holdings has launched a HK$1.83bn ($232.6m) IPO, nearly five months after it began pre-marketing.
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Bank of Communications Hong Kong branch has raised over $1.6bn from bonds in three different currencies. The pricing of its US dollar floating rate tranche defied market expectations.
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Taishin Financial Leasing (China) is about to close its debut offshore loan at $100m. It is now just waiting for one of the lenders to get approval.
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In this round up, sluggish economic data indicates growth headwinds, the Philippines eyes a Panda bond in April and USD/CNH futures trading volumes on the Singapore Exchange (SGX) hits record level.
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In this round-up, trade talks between the United States and China continued, the Foreign Investment Law was passed by the National People’s Congress and the US urged Germany to ban Huawei
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Chinese property company Fujian Yango Group Co raised $150m from a quick 1.5 year bond sale on Thursday, after a rocky start to the year.
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Barclays has prepared new issuance in Japan while it waits out this week’s Brexit drama. The yen market is proving popular among European banks, which are taking advantage of favourable conditions to make total loss-absorbing capacity (TLAC) issuance.
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Hong Kong’s securities regulator has fined Bank of America, Morgan Stanley, Standard Chartered and UBS after investigations into the banks’ sponsorship of a series of IPOs. The Swiss bank has also had its sponsor licence revoked for a year. Jonathan Breen reports.
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United Overseas Bank (UOB) became the first Singaporean issuer to sell a Panda bond this week, raising Rmb2bn ($298m) from a three year deal. Rebecca Feng reports.
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China’s state-owned ‘bad debt’ managers are making a comeback in the offshore market, after a rally in the sector. China Orient Asset Management Co this week became the second in a month to price bonds and there are more deals on the way. Addison Gong reports.
