Standard Chartered
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Hong Kong is facing the possibility of a fifth Covid-19 wave in the city, with the latest virus bubble infiltrating the financial industry. -
PTT Global Chemical (PTTGC) got a five times subscribed book for its dual-tranche bond on Thursday, attracting investors as a rare transaction from Thailand.
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Asia’s debt market was hit with volatility this week, putting pressure on secondary trading, denting primary bond supply and forcing investment grade borrower Indian Railway Finance Corp to pull its dollar transaction. Is there any respite on the way? Morgan Davis finds out.
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Oman's Bank Muscat this week returned to debt markets after a brief hiatus to sell a dollar bond. The deal was one of only a few across CEEMEA this week, as market participants say interest rate volatility is still deterring issuance.
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The Bank of Montreal marked International Women’s Day with a Canadian dollar women in business bond this week — its first domestic issue off its sustainability framework.
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Singapore's Temasek Holdings and its wholly owned Azalea Asset Management sold the fourth iteration of the Astrea collateralised fund obligation (CFO) this week. They raised more than $450m from the institutional portion of the deal, using a tried-and-tested structure.
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Turkish lender Akbank is in the syndicated loan market with its debut ESG deal, according to sources. The bank has been able to tighten pricing on the refinancing, meaning that it has enough competitively priced funding for it not to need to come to the bond market.
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Indian Railway Finance Corp postponed its dual-tranche dollar bond offering on Monday when faced with a volatile market backdrop that ‘bamboozled’ the banks running the deal.
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Rising oil prices will boost economic growth across the Middle East, possibly reducing reliance on capital markets funding. But the immediate concern for markets will be the path of interest rates.
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Genius Auto Finance Co priced its first auto ABS outing of the year under the Generation series on Thursday. It sold the senior class A1 tranche of the Rmb4.7bn ($726.8m) transaction at a negative spread to the onshore pricing benchmark and inside a comparable trade from this week.
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