IFR - 07.07.2018

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The bank sold 360m primary shares and
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price-to-book multiple of 0.92.
The stock is expected to list on July 10.
Six cornerstone investors are taking up 175m
shares. The investors are Rong De Investment
(32.9m shares), Success Cypress (32.9m shares),
AVICT Global (32.6m shares), Hong Kong KaiLi
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shares) and R&F Properties (HK) (21.7m shares).
ABC International and China Securities
International are joint sponsors on the IPO,
proceeds of which will be used to replenish
the bank’s capital.
Jiangxi-based Bank of Jiujiang posted a
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the end of 2017, its total assets stood at
Rmb271bn, capital adequacy ratio at 10.5%
and non-performing loan ratio at 1.6%.


BABYTREE APPLIES FOR HONG KONG IPO

BABYTREE GROUP, China’s largest parenting
website, plans to raise about US$600m from
a Hong Kong IPO.
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application to the Stock Exchange of Hong
Kong, with China Merchants Securities, Haitong
International and Morgan Stanley as joint
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The company posted revenues of
Rmb729.6m (US$110m) in 2017, up 43%
from a year earlier. It made a loss of
Rmb911m in 2017, narrowing from a
Rmb934.5m loss in 2016.
Babytree.com allows parents to get and
share pregnancy and parenting information.
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company has connected 338 advertising clients
and 2,253 third-party e-commerce vendors. The
company has since developed other outlets
such as Babytree Parenting mobile app,
e-commerce site Meitun MaMa as well as
WeTime, which focuses on child development.
It has 139 million total monthly active
users across all products in 2017.


WANKA ONLINE FILES FOR IPO

WANKA ONLINE, a Chinese mobile advertising
service provider, has applied for a Hong
Kong IPO that could raise up to US$500m,
according to a person close to the deal.
CICC, Citigroup, ICBC and Macquarie are
JOINTûSPONSORSûONûTHEûPROPOSEDûmOAT
The company provides advertising
services for various industries. It marketed
2,817 mobile apps in 2017 and recently
expanded into online game co-publishing
and online-video distribution businesses,
ACCORDINGûTOûREGULATORYûlLINGS
4HEûCOMPANYûPOSTEDûAûûNETûPROlTûOFû
Rmb7.5m (US$1.1m), a turnaround from a
2016 loss of Rmb30m.


Wanka’s executive directors Gao Dinan
and Zheng Wei have a combined controlling
interest of 39.7% in the company.

INNOVENT BIOLOGICS FILES FOR IPO

INNOVENT BIOLOGICS has applied for a Hong
Kong IPO, taking advantage of the city’s new
rules to allow early-stage drug developers to
list.
The Chinese biopharmaceutical company,
which counts Fidelity and Temasek among
its shareholders, is seeking to raise about
US$400m–$500m.
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NOûPROlTSûORûREVENUEûCANûLISTûINû(ONGû+ONGû
Like other Chinese peers, Innovent Biologics
has dropped an earlier plan to list in New
York in favour of Hong Kong.
Founded in 2011 by Dr De-Chao Michael
Yu, the company has developed four core
antibody products that are in late-stage

clinical development, with 13 other
antibody drugs in the pipeline for
development.
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antibody products are aimed at treating
multiple types of cancers, autoimmune
disorders and other diseases such as
leukaemia. The company spent Rmb611m
(US$92.3m) on R&D last year and owns three
China-issued patents.
It has also partnered with US drugmaker
Eli Lilly to co-develop three cancer
treatments in China and overseas.
China Merchants Securities, Goldman Sachs, JP
Morgan and Morgan Stanley are joint sponsors
for the IPO.

51 CREDIT CARD STARTS BOOKBUILDING

51 CREDIT CARD has begun bookbuilding for a
Hong Kong IPO of up to HK$1.37bn
(US$175m).

TOTAL NUMBER AND VOLUME OF EQUITY AND EQUITY-RELATED ISSUES BY COUNTRY
1/1/2018–30/6/2018
Volume No of Volume No of
Country US$(m) issues Country US$(m) issues

South Africa 3,183.3 19
UAE 1,896.4 9
Israel 1,572.3 13
Egypt 941.7 3
Nigeria 776.9 5
Saudi Arabia 113.8 1
Oman 71.8 1
Morocco 42.5 1
Jordan 10.0 1
Africa/Middle East 8,608.7 53
China 74,099.2 264
Japan 17,195.0 129
Australia 12,856.9 374
India 11,687.9 154
South Korea 9,294.6 68
Hong Kong 6,231.2 132
Singapore 3,258.5 39
Thailand 3,230.3 13
Philippines 3,184.6 8
Vietnam 2,473.7 3
Indonesia 1,519.1 19
Taiwan 1,180.2 57
Malaysia 1,155.2 68
New Zealand 703.5 5
Macau 102.4 2
Bangladesh 77.7 10
Mongolia 34.9 2
Papua New Guinea 31.6 1
Nepal 18.7 1
Myanmar (Burma) 12.3 2
Pakistan 6.9 1
Asia-Pacifc 148,316.5 1,348
United States 124,722.8 477
Canada 15,629.8 262
Cayman Islands 3,414.1 3
Mexico 2,645.3 3
Brazil 2,202.3 6

Bermuda 2,134.4 8
Chile 1,351.3 4
Argentina 865.2 2
Colombia 0.5 1
Americas 152,965.2 765
Germany 25,683.2 45
United Kingdom 23,647.6 190
France 8,154.8 43
Switzerland 4,826.6 15
Netherlands 3,792.4 14
Spain 3,710.0 15
Finland 3,592.9 13
Italy 2,739.9 12
Sweden 2,723.9 31
Norway 2,328.8 24
Belgium 1,984.8 11
Luxembourg 1,819.4 9
Turkey 1,368.4 4
Denmark 1,329.3 9
Austria 739.0 1
Guernsey 727.1 10
Ireland 617.3 7
Jersey 573.3 11
Poland 450.1 10
Cyprus 404.5 5
Iceland 266.1 1
Isle of Man 265.7 1
Estonia 173.9 1
Greece 164.4 3
Russian Federation 72.3 1
Malta 52.1 1
Bulgaria 48.2 1
Lithuania 27.3 1
Europe 92,283.3 489
Total 403,245.4 2,664
Source: Thomson Reuters
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