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Interest among Chinese companies to list in the US continues to remain strong, with personal finance company X Financial and internet firm Viomi setting the stage for their IPOs.

China-based X Financial has set the ball rolling for a potential $250m listing on the New York Stock Exchange.

Mercedes-Benz Auto Finance has completed the tightest auto asset-backed securitization by any foreign originator in China in almost two years. The deal, which closed on Monday, was twice oversubscribed despite two underwriters dropping out of the syndicate at the eleventh hour.

The pipeline of Asian IPOs headed for the US is shaping up for September, with the latest crop of issuers all starting to drum up investor interest.

Tencent Holdings-backed Qutoutiao has filed draft documents for a Nasdaq IPO, with plans to raise up to $300m.

Geely and BNP Paribas’s auto finance joint venture hit the Chinese securitization market with a bang this week, as domestic investors oversubscribed for its single tranche sale by three times. The deal came a week before Mercedes is scheduled to launch a similarly structured transaction, its first in China this year.

Geely and BNP Paribas’s auto finance joint venture hit the Chinese securitization market with a bang on Tuesday, as domestic investors oversubscribed its single tranche sale by three times. The deal came a week before Mercedes is scheduled to launch a similarly structured transaction, which will be its first in China this year.

Hong Kong saw its second biotechnology listing this week, as BeiGene floated on the city’s stock exchange. But two days after listing it was under water and was followed by a double-digit dive by Ascletis Pharma, the sector’s debut issuer. The state of both stocks are a warning sign for future biotech issuers to rein in valuations, say ECM bankers. Jonathan Breen reports.

A Shanghai-based joint venture between carmaker Geely and BNP Paribas is to enter the Chinese auto loans securitization market for the first time next week. The company will test demand with a Rmb1.94bn ($284m) deal, selling just one tranche to investors in the interbank bond market.

The lending arm of Ford’s China operation took advantage of bullish sentiments in the onshore market on August 2, sealing a Rmb4.5bn ($662.3m) securitization. Bankers say Ford managed to price below Nissan, which offered a similar ABS recently, thanks to a major policy announcement that emerged last week.

Mainland telecommunications infrastructure giant China Tower raised HK$54.3bn ($6.9bn) this week after getting its mammoth float across the line at the bottom of guidance.

Ford's Chinese auto lending subsidiary is selling a Rmb4bn ($587.1m) securitization in the renminbi market later this week, coming to the market a fortnight after Nissan. The originator is deploying the fixed-and-floating combo used by Nissan — a tactic which will help the company broaden its investor base, say bankers.