KDB and China South City bonds priced tight

Busy day for Chinese investment grade issuers with deals from China Huarong Asset Management and China State Construction Engineering Corp.

Country Garden and Dongxing Securities take advantage of calm market conditions ahead of potential rate induced volatility.

Republic of Korea has become the first non-European issuer to price a euro bond with a negative yield, but it also reset the benchmark for other Korean issuers.

There are welcome signs the new asset class is finding its feet the region. After South Korea’s pioneering efforts, interest is now picking up in India and accelerating in Japan. However, not everyone is yet fully convinced of its virtues just yet.

Deal flow set to pick up if regulatory hold ups are resolved and markets play ball.

On the back of a buoyant market, Manila doubled what it raised from a similar dollar bond sale in 2018 and was the year's first Asia sovereign borrower out of the blocks.