Northeast Asia

Turbulence in China’s equities and bond markets forced Shimao Property Holdings to cull one portion of a dual-tranche dollar bond deal this week as investors shied away from the longer tenor.

Dafa Properties Group raised HK$840m ($107m) after pricing its Hong Kong IPO a few cents above the middle of the marketed range.

Yields on dollar bonds from Chinese issuers have jumped this year, but investors don’t appear to be rising to the bait. A rethink of borrowers’ fundraising strategies should be on the cards.

The London-Shanghai Stock Connect, slated to be launched by the end of the year, has the capital market’s attention, given its vast potential. But bankers and industry associations want more clarity on the operational aspects of the link.

Weidai, a Chinese peer-to-peer lender, started drumming up interest for a possible $100m IPO on the New York Stock Exchange on Monday.

Chinese stock markets led the decline among all major Asian indices on Monday, as woes in the region’s bond market also continued. Debt issuers aiming to kick off their deals this week have their work cut out for them.

Supply of asset-backed securities (ABS) is growing in China. But most international banks, investors and originators are sticking to the segment of the market they know best — auto loan ABS. To get these foreign players out of their comfort zone, China needs to introduce more diversity in the market, bankers say. Noah Sin reports.

When MSCI finally included the first batch of A-shares in its emerging markets index in June, it pushed a broad range of international investors to dip their toes in Chinese stocks for the first time. But as speculative retail flows continue to dominate the market, some are turning to opportunities outside the benchmark. Noah Sin reports.

Chinese white goods maker Qingdao Haier is planning to kick off bookbuilding for a flotation of D-shares in mid-October, set to be the debut offering for the asset class.

Bond Connect has only been around for a year, but the impact of its revolutionary approach to China market access is already widely felt. There have certainly been teething problems, but for investors around the globe, the scheme has finally unlocked an opportunity to invest in China’s $11tr bond market. GlobalRMB sat down with leading players in the market to discuss Bond Connect’s unfolding story.

This is the 40th year of China’s reform and opening up. As pointed out in the report of the 19th National Congress of the Commu¬nist Party of China, “China will not close its door to the world; we will only become more and more open”.

Volatility in Asian dollar bonds has put the focus on marketing tactics deployed by banks, and in particular some Chinese securities houses, to win over investors — tactics that are distorting price discovery and putting pressure on the secondary market. Are standards falling in the region? Rashmi Kumar finds out.