IPO

Kuaishou Technology has raised $5.4 billion in its initial public offering, Hong Kong's largest since 2019.
IPO

Bids for shares of TikTok rival Kuaishou reach triple of IPO price

Hong Kong gray-market trades put Chinese video app on course for record opening

4 February 2021
Alibaba Group will post quarterly earnings on Tuesday, the first results since Chinese authorities launched a series of antimonopoly actions against the group. 
Your Week in Asia

Alibaba results, Kuaishou stock debut, India budget

Your weekly lineup of Asia's biggest business and political events

31 January 2021
Malaysian credit reporting agency CTOS Holdings aims to list its shares in July, according Creador CEO Brahmal Vasudevan.
DealStreetAsia

Malaysia private equity firm targets July IPO for credit agency

Creador preparing exit pipeline with plans to sell stake in Bank Index

30 January 2021
SK may soon unseat Hyundai as South Korea’s second-largest chaebol, or family-owned conglomerate, as it continues to boost its scale through its group IPO strategy.
IPO

South Korea's SK Group embraces IPOs to drive growth

Country's third-biggest conglomerate seeks expansion via listings of group units

30 January 2021
Kuaishou Technology, backed by Tencent Holdings, is China's second-most popular short-video app, after ByteDance's Douyin.
IPO

Kuaishou sets record as Hong Kong investors pile into $5.4bn IPO

Video platform share price set to be at top of range for offer next week

29 January 2021
As of Jan. 27, 199 companies were awaiting regulatory clearance to list on the Nasdaq-like STAR Market in Shanghai while 73 more were waiting for a main board listing.
Caixin

Hundreds of IPOs stuck in China's regulatory logjam

14 companies' listing processes aborted this month, 5 times more than a year ago

29 January 2021
Chinese short video app Kuaishou, known for down-to-earth content posted by people in smaller cities and rural areas, is now seeking $5.4 billion in the world's largest initial public offering since the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic.
China tech

Kuaishou goes from humble roots to $5bn IPO to take on ByteDance

Video platform taps users in China's regions and woos investors amid TikTok frenzy

28 January 2021
A Kuaishou Technology booth at a trade fair in Beijing in September 2020. The company operates apps that allow users to upload short videos as well as livestream programs.
Markets

Big US funds stake claim on quarter of Kuaishou's $5.4bn IPO

Chinese short-video app backing comes despite tense Washington-Beijing relations

25 January 2021
RLX Technology, China's largest producer of vaping devices, sells products under the RELX brand.
Markets

In first Chinese IPO of Biden era, RLX rockets to 146% gain in US

Meanwhile, TikTok rival Kuaishou seeks bigger Hong Kong listing

23 January 2021