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Bottom line: Alibaba’s technical glitch at Alipay, the launch of its new bank and use of its Taobao platform to auction of bad loans reflect its growing clout in financial services, as it attempts to build up its Ant Financial unit for a future IPO.
Technical glitch interrupts Alipay
E-commerce leader Alibaba (NYSE: BABA) is in a trio of finance-related headlines, spotlighting its growing bet on financial services that could be a huge growth area as Beijing opens the sector to private investment. One headline has seen Alibaba get official permission from its home province to open a bank, after it became one of the first 3 entities to receive private banking licenses under a pilot program by Beijing.
The second headline has seen the company’s popular Alipay electronic payments service experience technical problems that cut off access for 2 hours earlier this week, prompting it to quickly say that no accounts were compromised. The final news bit comes in a larger story about China’s growing bad asset crisis, which will see the nation’s top bad asset management company use Alibaba’s Taobao marketplace to auction off some of those assets. Read Full Post…
Shanghai may be famous for its entrepreneurial spirit, but its track record isn’t quite so stellar when it comes to nurturing top entrepreneurs. That could be starting to change, however, with word that Dalian Wanda Group, one of China’s most dynamic companies, plans to move its headquarters to Shanghai from its current location in Beijing.
As a longtime foreigner living in Shanghai, I’ve always been surprised by the relatively small number of major private companies for a city of our size. We should certainly be proud of some of our city’s most outstanding entrepreneurs, with names like Guo Guangchang of Fosun Group and Spring Airlines (Shenzhen: 601021) Chairman Wang Zhenghua as 2 outstanding examples. Read Full Post…
Bottom line: Focus Media could complete its backdoor listing in Shenzhen within the next month, kicking off a new wave of similar migrations by formerly US-listed Chinese firms looking for higher valuations from local investors.
Focus Media to list in Shenzhen via Hongda
Faded outdoor advertising specialist Focus Media is inching towards its goal of becoming China’s first formerly New York-traded firm to re-list in its home market, with reports that it has selected a Shenzhen-listed company to make a backdoor IPO. This particular migration has been in the works for more than a year now, and could end soon with this backdoor IPO that would see Focus take over the public listing of Hongda Building Materials (Shenzhen: 002211). Read Full Post…
Bottom line: Citic Capital and Fosun are expanding their tastes beyond the traditional Chinese preference for distressed assets, reflecting growing sophistication and diverging strategies of China’s emerging private equity buyers.
Citic Capital in group buying OmniVision
Chinese private equity is in a few major headlines this week, picking up assets in the technology, insurance and retail sectors in the US and Japan. The wide range of deals and geographies reflects the diverging strategies of some of China’s emerging private equity giants, which are rapidly developing their own individual personalities on the global stage. Citic Capital is behind 2 of the latest deals, picking up a retail asset in Japan and a US company that specializes in imaging technology. Meantime, Fosun International (HKEx: 656) has made a major new purchase in the US, offering to buy the remaining stake in an insurer that it first invested in last year. Read Full Post…
The following press releases and media reports about Chinese companies were carried on March 7-9. To view a full article or story, click on the link next to the headline.
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Amazon (Nasdaq: AMZN) China Opens Store on Alibaba (NYSE: BABA) Tmall (English article)
Momo (Nasdaq: MOMO) Announces Q4, Full Year Financial Results (Globe Newswire)
JD.com (Nasdaq: JD), iFlytek (Shenzhen: 002230) In Smart Home Products JV (English article)
Bottom line: Washington’s approval of the purchase of the Waldorf Astoria hotel by a Chinese insurer indicates a wave of similar real estate buying by Chinese investors will accelerate, resulting in a bubble likely to burst over the next decade.
Anbang closes Waldorf buy
Washington has just sent an important signal that it won’t seek to halt the growing tide of Chinese investment in US real estate, with word that Anbang Insurance has just closed its purchase of New York’s storied Waldorf Astoria hotel for nearly $2 billion. I was quite surprised at how quickly this deal closed, since the amount of money is huge and the deal itself also sparked some controversy over potential national security issues. More precisely, it took just over 4 months to close the purchase of one of the world’s most famous hotels at a record-setting price. Read Full Post…
The following press releases and media reports about Chinese companies were carried on January 3-5. To view a full article or story, click on the link next to the headline.
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Fosun (HKEx: 656) Wins Contest For Club Med As Andrea Bonomi To Drop Bid (English article)
Haier-Evergrande, JD.com-Midea In New Alliances For 2015 (Chinese article)
Perfect World (Nasdaq: PWRD) Receves “Going Private” Proposal at $20 Per ADS (PRNewswire)
Renren (NYSE: RENN) Announces Resignation Of CFO, Board Changes (PRNewswire)
Xiaomi Doubles Revenue to $12 Billion as Phone Sales Triple (English article)
The following press releases and media reports about Chinese companies were carried on December 31. To view a full article or story, click on the link next to the headline.
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Fosun (HKEx: 656) To Buy Meadowbrook In $433 Mln Transaction (English article)
Ping An Unit Buys 1 Bln Yuan In United PV (HKEx: 686) Convertible Bonds (Chinese article)
Linekong (HKEx: 8267) Finishes Flat In HK Trading Debut (Chinese article)
China Plans To Extend Green Vehicle Subsidies Until 2020 (English article)
ZTE (HKEx: 763) Unveils Redesigned Logo In New Strategic Focus On M-ICT Innovations (Businesswire)
Bottom line: Fosun is prepared to up its latest bid for Club Med by another 20-30 percent, while Anbang needs to be careful in its investments to avoid ending up with a portfolio of overvalued, underperforming assets.
Fosun ups Club Med bid
Two of China’s most active institutional investors are in the headlines today, led by a new sweetened bid from private equity giant Fosun International (HKEx: 656) as it competes with an Italian group to buy French vacation resort operator Club Med (Paris: CU). Meantime, another recently acquisitive investor Anbang Insurance is back in the headlines, with word that it’s boosted its stake in Minsheng Bank (HKEx: 1988 Shanghai: 600016), China’s oldest and largest privately owned lender. Read Full Post…
The following press releases and media reports about Chinese companies were carried on December 20-22. To view a full article or story, click on the link next to the headline.
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China’s Fosun (HKEx: 656) Raises Offer For Club Med (Paris: CU) (English article)
Waldorf Buyer Anbang Invests In Property, Banking Stakes (English article)
China Mobile (HKEx: 941) Targets 250 Mln 4G Users By End Of 2015 (Chinese article)
BYD (HKEx: 1211) Stock Rebounds, Confirms Buffett Hasn’t Sold Down Stake (Chinese article)
Ctrip (Nasdaq: CTRP) Launches Open Platform For Travel Agents (Chinese article)
Bottom line: Linekong’s IPO should price in the middle of its range and post modest gains on its trading debut, while Dalian Wanda will price near the bottom of its range and debut flat to down slightly.
Linekong aims for December 19 trading debut
The year-end rush of IPOs is steaming ahead in Hong Kong, with online game operator Linekong popping back into the headlines for a year-end listing, as property giant Dalian Wanda starts to sell its own IPO story to investors. The former deal is relatively large for an online game company, aiming to raise nearly $200 million. Meantime, the latter could become the biggest IPO Hong Kong has seen in several years, with the potential to raise nearly $4 billion. Frankly speaking, neither of these deals looks too exciting to me as both come in sectors plagued by overcapacity and stiff competition. But that said, at least Dalian Wanda could be a good longer-term bet due to its status as one of China’s best-run and biggest commercial property developers. Read Full Post…
