Secondary pricing update: featuring NRW.Bank's 10 year green bond
Trading levels given are bid-side spreads versus mid-swaps and/or an underlying benchmark as of Thursday’s close. The source for secondary trading levels is Interactive Data.
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China Huarong Asset Management navigated a crowded Asian dollar bond market with a chunky $1.8bn deal on November 12. The trade was a replica of a highly successful transaction it executed at the start...
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Neil Slee has been promoted to managing director at Goldman Sachs, after three years at the firm. He is head of emerging markets bond syndicate.
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View ArticleMahanagar rolls out $152m Indian IPO
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View ArticleCiti appoints new Apac head of TMT
Citi has hired former Credit Suisse banker, Jan Metzger, as its new Asia Pacific head of technology, media and telecom (TMT), according to an internal memo seen by GlobalCapital Asia.
View ArticleRussell-Davison exits Standard Chartered
Aaron Russell-Davison, who recently resigned as the head of DCM at Standard Chartered and was seeking another position within the bank, has officially left the firm.
View ArticleFunding Circle enters home straight for fund IPO, not yet covered
Funding Circle, the peer-to-peer service that lends to SMEs, is expected to close the initial public offering for its new fund on Tuesday next week, which is at this stage not yet covered.
View ArticleGlut of issuance sends CMBS spreads to new wides
Investors are buckling under the weight of new CMBS issuance over the past week, as spreads on the top rated bonds are being pushed out again after briefly settling into a range earlier this month.
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View ArticleYirendai heads to New York for $100m listing
Chinese company Yirendai, an online consumer finance marketplace, is eyeing the New York Stock Exchange for a $100m IPO and has a filed a preliminary prospectus for the listing.
View ArticleSocGen transfers export finance specialist to HK
Société Générale has transferred Sylvie Leclercq from Europe to Hong Kong to head up the French lender’s export finance unit in the city.
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View ArticleJinzhou pre-markets IPO as Brightoil changes tack
Bank of Jinzhou Co commenced investor education on Tuesday for its $600m IPO in Hong Kong, having appointed five banks as joint global co-ordinators.
View ArticleStanChart names replacement to lead financial market sales
Standard Chartered has replaced Carsten Stoehr, the bank’s former global head of financial market sales, who resigned from the firm last week.
View ArticleCredit Suisse names new Apac IB co-heads
Credit Suisse has tapped Mervyn Chow and Edwin Low as the new co-heads of investment banking and capital markets for Asia Pacific, replacing Vikram Malhotra who is taking charge of a new unit focusing...
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Commentary around the one year anniversary of the Shanghai-Hong Kong Stock Connect seems pretty unanimous in suggesting the scheme has failed to achieve its goals. However, if one looks at past Chinese...
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