Hong Kong aims to raise up to the equivalent of US$5 billion in a US dollar, euro and offshore Chinese yuan green bond issuance, sources with direct knowledge of the matter said.
The final size and tenors for the issuance could change, depending on investors’ appetite, Reuters cited sources saying.
The government made no immediate response to a request for comment. The sources declined to be named, as the information had not been made public.
Hong Kong’s government was proposing that the dollar tranche could be spread across three-, five- and 10-year tranches, with a possibility of issuing a 30-year bond, two sources told Reuters.
Hong Kong was aiming to raise about US$3 billion in dollars, those two sources said.
The euro tranche was targeting €1 billion in two- and seven-year tenors, they added.
The offshore-yuan-deal was intended to be worth about five billion yuan and would include a longer tenor of five years, said one of the sources and two others. Those three people variously said the shorter of its two tenors would be two or three years.
Books for the deal should open on Wednesday, they added.
Eight investment banks are working on the US dollar and euro transactions and seven are mandated on the offshore yuan tranche, according to the term sheet, which was seen by Reuters.
Calls with investors were underway on Tuesday, it showed.
