Northeast Asia

Natixis has appointed Chaoni Huang as a director of green and sustainable solutions for Asia Pacific, according to a Monday press release.

In this round-up, China’s Politburo meets to discuss the policy priorities for 2018, Shenzhen Stock Exchange in talks over ETF Connect, and HSBC expands its A-shares coverage from its onshore securities joint venture.

Public Financial Holdings has returned to the Hong Kong dollar loan market for a HK$1.1bn ($141m) refinancing.

Two borrowers from the Shandong province in China used different approaches to woo dollar investors to their deals on Thursday, with one going for a rare structure and the other opting to anchor its issuance.

China Citic Bank sold its first senior unsecured dollar bond on Thursday, executing the four tranche floating-fixed combination deal in a club style fashion.

Wuhan State-Owned Asset Management Company (WSAM) and Hefei Industry Investment Holding (Group) Co added to the recent issuance momentum from Chinese local government financing vehicles, with each printing $300m bonds on Thursday.

Nine years after the rescue of Lehman Brothers’ EMEA and Asian investment banking operations triggered a failed attempt by Nomura to enter the big league of investment banking, the Japanese bank has got the deal bug again, writes David Rothnie.

Europe looks ripe for a wave of takeovers by Chinese companies in 2018, as the country becomes more willing to countenance dealmaking overseas after its recent pullback.

The end of the year awards season can be tense for everyone. It's hard to enjoy the lengthy meetings, endless pitches and repeat questions about the same deals over and over. So if a banker can take the meetings a little less seriously, it makes for a very refreshing change.

Nine banks have formed the syndicate for a HK$1.25bn loan for Hong Kong-listed China Tian Lun Gas Holdings.

Two Chinese government-owned entities, Chengdu Communications Investment Group Corp and Qinghai Province General Aviation Group Co, priced their dollar bonds on Wednesday, but opted for very different tenors — the former a 10 year and the latter 363 days.

China's foreign exchange reserves expanded for the tenth month running, gold futures on the Hong Kong Exchange (HKEX) set a new record, and Aberdeen Standard Investment nabbed a private fund management licence.