Northeast Asia

Taiwanese printed circuit board manufacturer Zhen Ding Technology Holding has broken a three absence from the loan market to launch a $250m deal for refinancing.

Chinese electric vehicle manufacturer Nio is tapping the equity-linked market for a jumbo convertible bond, as it looks to add more to its coffers just a month after a multi-billion-dollar share sale.

New World Development Co printed Asia ex-Japan’s first sustainability-linked bond last week, raising $200m from the transaction. The Hong Kong-based property developer's deputy chief financial officer and its head of sustainability spoke to GlobalCapital Asia on Monday about why the firm ventured into this asset class and the challenges it faced.

Linklogis, a technology-based supply chain finance company, is planning to float in Hong Kong, and has filed a draft IPO prospectus with the city’s stock exchange.

Hong Kong-based energy firm Fortune Oil has returned to the loan market. It is seeking $400m-equivalent to refinance an old borrowing sealed in 2018.

In this round-up, consumer inflation in China turns positive in December, Beijing announces rules to protect Chinese companies from sanctions of foreign governments, and the banking and insurance regulator hands a Rmb200m ($30.1m) fine to financial institutions including China Development Bank and Industrial and Commercial Bank of China.

In this round-up, the central bank sets working goals for 2021, the Chinese government extends its policy to support small and micro-sized enterprises, and the US bans eight Mainland-based applications including the popular Alipay and WeChat Pay.

Five Chinese corporate borrowers pushed into the debt market on Thursday, capping a frantic pace of deal flow this week that set a new record for Asia bond issuance.

Hong Kong-based property developer New World Development Co (NWD) opened a new area of issuance for Asian borrowers on Thursday when it sold the region's first dollar sustainability-linked bond.

Bank of China sold its debut transition bond on Thursday, giving the still nascent market a big boost by opting for a dual currency dollar and renminbi deal.

Chinese originator Home Credit Consumer Finance Co sold a Rmb1bn ($155m) consumer loan ABS this week, opting for a different type of underlying assets compared to its past deals.

China Huarong Financial Leasing Co wooed investors with a $300m short-dated bond on Thursday to meet some of its general funding requirements, returning to the debt market less than six months after its last outing.