Nomura

Japan’s largest taxi-hailing app operator opened 21.25% above its offer price on the Tokyo Stock Exchange, with Nomura, Goldman Sachs and BofA Securities acting as joint global coordinators.

Patrick Kwan, Nomura’s head of investment banking, Asia ex-Japan, is leaving the Japanese bank “to pursue other interests", according to an internal company memo.

The deal involved the chipmaker's German subsidiary and was the first ever public exchangeable issuance out of a Taiwan group issuer into a non-Taiwanese listed underlying.

Hong Kong-based Kahloon will work alongside Corrinne Teo, and will be responsible for driving innovation and growth of Nomura’s solutions business.

But if unchecked, these problems can spiral into disaster, they also warn.

Time spent with global investors allowed the central Asian republic to slash funding costs and refocus the economy away from coal while paving way for a future issuance.

China's bank capital issuers didn't really give a fig for the offshore markets in 2019. Will their attitude change in 2020?

It could be one of the most exciting years ever for Asian frontier market issuance as Indochina gets into first gear.

Understanding what lies behind the mask is becoming ever more important as a wider variety of credits from across the region access the international bond markets.