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FinanceAsia - Capital Markets Weekly
Friday 18 July, 2014
 

Dealogic league table roundup, July 18

Debt Pipeline

Equity Pipeline

DEBT

Asia sprouts first corporate green bond

Advanced Semiconductor Engineering sells a debut $300 million three-year debt offering.

By Chien Mi Wong | 18 July 2014

KKR's Goodpack LBO financing gathers pace

Goodpack held roadshows in Singapore this week for a $720 million term loan to fund KKR's buyout and meets with US investors next week.

By Denise Wee | 17 July 2014

Future Land bond buoyed by onshore confidence

The Jiangsu-based developer raised a $350m bond, the first Chinese property issue this month.

By Chien Mi Wong | 15 July 2014

New Safe rules do little to help Chinese borrowers

China’s new SAFE cross-border rules enable Chinese borrowers to back loans with onshore assets but restrictions over remitting the funds back onshore will cap borrowing.

By Denise Wee | 14 July 2014

Mongolian trade bank pulls bond deal

Trade and Development Bank of Mongolia has postponed its dollar bond deal, blaming a banking crisis in Portugal.

By Chien Mi Wong | 13 July 2014

Hony: China's new pizza man

Beijing-based Hony Capital is buying Britain's iconic PizzaExpress for about £900 million.

By Alison Tudor-Ackroyd | 13 July 2014

EQUITY

Korean government divests new IBK stake

Government takes advantage of share price spike to offload more of its stake in the policy bank.

By Jackie Horne, Suzy Waite | 18 July 2014

China SOE reform: winners and losers

Equity analysts are scouring China’s reform plans to unearth potential beneficiaries. The swelling list so far includes the likes of China Telecom, Sinopharm and CNBM.

By Jing Song, Alison Tudor-Ackroyd | 18 July 2014

I-Reit launches Singapore IPO

Property group hopes to entice investors with a big yield kicker for Singapore's first European pure play Reit offering.

By Suzy Waite, Jackie Horne | 17 July 2014

HKT Trust raises $1b from rights issue

Demand was strong for Richard Li's telecom trust, which will use the proceeds to pay down some of its substantial debt.

By Suzy Waite | 17 July 2014

Bankers to cash in on China's SOE reforms

Reform of China’s sprawling state-owned enterprises is generating lucrative assignments for bankers. However they must be in it for the long-haul as change will take time.

By Alison Tudor-Ackroyd, Jing Song | 16 July 2014

Dai-ichi Life raises $2.4b from share sale

The company, Japan's second-largest private-sector life insurer, will use the proceeds to fund its acquistion of US company Protective Insurance Company.

By Suzy Waite | 15 July 2014

China's SOE reform gathers pace

Sinopharm and China National Building Materials are next in line for further privatization as Beijing revamps its debt-laden state sector.

By Alison Tudor-Ackroyd, Jing Song | 15 July 2014

Retail investors snap up Cogobuy

Huge retail demand allowed Cogobuy to exercise the clawback option and price its shares in the top half of the range.

By Suzy Waite | 14 July 2014

Neo Solar sells $120m CB

The Taiwanese solar power company is raising money to buy raw materials.

By Nick Ferguson | 13 July 2014

COMMENTARY

Emerging markets provide the only equities value

Giordano Lombardo, CIO of Pioneer Investments, says he retains long risk positions, particularly in China, but has a more balanced portfolio now.

By Jame DiBiasio | 16 July 2014

Get China right, get emerging markets right

Giordano Lombardo, CIO of Pioneer Investments, says comparisons between China now and the US pre-2008 are off the mark.

By Jame DiBiasio | 17 July 2014

China's Potemkin economy

Over-investment and a failure to write off bad debts will create progressively less economic activity.

By Satyajit Das | 16 July 2014

Modi gives lift-off to Indian capital markets

The Modi government has cut withholding taxes on offshore bonds and raised limits on foreign investment in insurance companies.

By Denise Wee | 15 July 2014

PEOPLE MOVES

Pssst: fancy a fake resignation?

A survey shows that Hong Kong finance professionals are more likely to tender their resignation to gain a pay rise than their Asian peers. And that it is highly likely to work.

By Chris Dodd | 15 July 2014

Barclays names Kwan as Asia-Pacific IB co-head

The bank has also made three other appointments to restructure its distribution franchise and equity derivative business in the region.

By Jing Song | 14 July 2014

BofA Merrill hires Southeast Asia FIG head

BofA Merrill has named Mayank Saxena its head of its Southeast Asia financial institutions coverage.

By Alison Tudor-Ackroyd | 13 July 2014

 

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