Northeast Asia

Multi-billion-dollar exchange plus new money offerings from China Evergrande and Kaisa Group took centre stage in Asia DCM this week, keeping liability management as the market's hot topic. The deals are considered a win-win for issuers, which can lock in relatively cheap funding, and for investors, which are compensated by an exchange premium, while also allowing Chinese borrowers to pre-empt regulatory hurdles, writes Addison Gong.

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Xin Point Holdings, the Chinese automotive components supplier, has raised HK$855m ($110m) after its Hong Kong IPO was priced at the top of the range, with high level of demand coming in from retail investors.

Foreign investors using the Bond Connect will not be required to exchange their renminbi back to foreign currencies even after selling their bonds, if they intend to re-invest that money in onshore Chinese bonds, according to new interim rules for Bond Connect published by PBoC on June 21.

Kaisa Group Holdings, the only Chinese developer to default on offshore debt back in 2015, started taking bids on Thursday for the new issuance portion of an exchange offer. Four sets of fixed rate notes will be sold to replace the company’s outstanding variable rate senior bonds.

Property names China Jinmao Holdings Group and Shimao Property Holdings, along with India’s Adani Ports and Special Economic Zone, launched new dollar deals on Thursday.

The upcoming Bond Connect will not only further open up China’s fixed income market, but also speed up the country’s financial market reform, Mark Austen, CEO of Asia Securities Industry & Financial Markets Association (Asifma), told GlobalRMB in a wide-ranging interview.

South Korean shipbuilding company Hyundai Mipo Dockyard sold its entire stake in Hyundai Robotics for W352.2bn ($309.0m) through a rapidly covered block on Wednesday night.

Pharmaceutical company China Medical System Holdings has signed a $300m three year fundraising with a single lender.

Gome Electrical Appliances Holdings priced a tap on Tuesday, adding $100m to the original $400m notes on the back of 6x demand. Investors’ eagerness for paper allowed the issuer to price inside both its existing notes and secondary.

The MSCI's decision to include A-shares in its emerging market index will drive capital inflows to Chinese equities not just from index trackers but also from active fund managers. But some warn that the pace of investments could be threatened by shrinking offshore RMB (CNH) liquidity.