Tag: banks

After previous quotas have been ignored by banks, China may not announce an official target for credit growth this year, economists say.
By Lillian Liu | 20 January 2011
Minsheng shows hunger for cash again after raising $4 billion in a Hong Kong IPO in 2009, and Sinovel Wind raises $1.4 billion after pricing its Shanghai IPO at the top of the ...
By Lillian Liu | 10 January 2011
Investor education starts for the IPO of state-owned airline Garuda Indonesia, which could fetch about $500 million, while Bank Mandiri kicks off the domestic roadshow for its ...
By Anette Jönsson | 5 January 2011
Three separate placements last week in Fubon Financial, Protelindo and L'Occitane suggest investors are still open to a good opportunity.
By Anette Jönsson | 13 December 2010
Chongqing Rural Commercial Bank will become the ninth Chinese bank to list in Hong Kong after pricing its IPO at the mid-point of the indicated range and at a discount to ...
By Anette Jönsson | 13 December 2010
Swiftly put together, yet carefully executed, there are lessons to be learned from this initial public offering.
By Anette Jönsson | 7 December 2010
The Employees Provident Fund sells 4.5% in RHB Capital, while Malaysia Telekom offloads just under half of its 2.27% stake, raising a combined $368 million.
By Anette Jönsson | 3 December 2010
Coming four months after the last of the Big Four obtained a Hong Kong listing, Chongqing Rural Commercial Bank seeks to become China's first city commercial bank to list ...
By Anette Jönsson | 29 November 2010
Bank Negara Indonesia gets a head start on its $1.2 billion rights issue as the government's entitlement is sold to other investors at a 9.7% premium to the rights issue price.
By Anette Jönsson | 24 November 2010
Piyush Gupta, CEO of Singapore’s leading bank, says the time is right to create a truly Asian bank and that DBS is well-placed to fill that role.
By Rupert Walker | 19 November 2010
BoA Merrill decides not to buy more shares in CCB and will sell its rights to Temasek instead. Meanwhile, ICBC confirms it is seeking to raise up to $6.8 billion from a rights ...
By Anette Jönsson | 12 November 2010
The long-awaited share sales are offered at discounts of around 40%.
By Anette Jönsson | 3 November 2010
Temasek exits Hana Financial at a 6% discount to the latest close after initially trying to sell the shares at a zero to 3.5% discount, prompting a 7.3% drop in the share price.
By Anette Jönsson | 22 October 2010
Temasek is hoping to raise up to $640 million from the sale of a 9.6% stake in the Korean financial holding company through a block trade that was expected to price before the ...
By Anette Jönsson | 21 October 2010
Khazanah sells $370 million worth of shares in Malaysia's CIMB bank, while the controlling shareholders of Thai broadcaster BEC World raise $126 million from the sale of a 5.6% ...
By Anette Jönsson | 12 October 2010
Stuart Gulliver is named the new CEO after Geoghegan resigns, while Douglas Flint will take on the chairman's role.
By Anette Jönsson | 27 September 2010
The private equity firm raises $1.2 billion at a tight 1.2% discount after Ping An strikes a deal to increase its stake in Shenzhen Development Bank to above 50%.
By Anette Jönsson | 3 September 2010
M&A
HSBC is close to buying South Africa's fourth-largest bank, Nedbank, for at least $6.5 billion.
By Sameera Anand | 24 August 2010
Agricultural Bank boosts its total deal size to $20.8 billion after exercising the greenshoe on the H-share portion of its IPO. Meanwhile, ICBC will seek shareholder approval ...
By Anette Jönsson | 30 July 2010
The fact that the stock didn't fall below issue price and there was no need to stabilise should be regarded as a positive sign.
By Anette Jönsson | 19 July 2010
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Magazine
FinanceAsia Magazine
FinanceAsia
December 2011/January 2012