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Hong Kong regulators like to pitch their exchange as one of the most successful and fastest growing in the world. There is a lot of truth to that. Companies listed on the exchange have a combined capitalisation of $24.1bn, issuers can rely on huge demand from retail investors and foreign issuers are jumping over themselves to access the market. But has Hong Kong become a victim of its own success?
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When Kookmin Bank completed its $1bn covered bond in May 2009, market participants applauded and predicted the start of a vibrant new business in Asia. Now, disenchanted muttering greets talk of the same covered bond as proverbial tumbleweed rolls by.
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The Singapore stock exchange announced a $8.3bn bid to acquire Australia’s bourse this week, sending the markets into a frenzy as pundits held forth on whether this was a good move for SGX, a good move for ASX — or a bad move for both.
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My friends down under tell me that acquisition financing is starting to pick up, finally. Companies and private equity house are scouring the classifieds for suitable targets, safe in the knowledge that the banks are back on side.
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Asia’s investment grade borrowers are funding at historically low levels, helped by a strong bid from US investors who desperately want to park their money as far from home as possible. But investors have left themselves with little or no protection against the unexpected — and when a correction comes, it is likely to be bloody.
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Commodities companies are invading Asia’s loan market. From UK steel trader Stemcor attempting its first loan in Asia to Mecuria Energy, the Singaporean subsidiary of a Swiss company, refinancing its first Asian loan, commodities companies from around the world are looking to Asia for cash.