ePrime congratulates Guotai Junan International Holdings Limited on the Successful Issuance of Offshore USD Floating Rate Digitally Native Notes
31 July 2025
ePrime congratulates Guotai Junan International Holdings Limited (hereinafter referred to as “GTJAI”, stock code: 1788.HK) on the successful issuance of USD 200 million 3-year fixed rate notes and USD 300 million 3-year floating rate digitally native notes on the 8th and 23rd of July 2025 respectively. The issuance on 23rd July represents the first publicly issued digitally native bond by a Chinese securities firm. The main participating institutions in the above bond issuances completed bookbuilding, order allocation, and pricing smoothly through ePrime Issuance Service.
In recent years, GTJAI has been making breakthroughs in the field of financial innovation and has actively led the innovative development of digital finance and digital asset business, of which the issue of digital bonds is one of the important initiatives in its deployment of blockchain technology and digitalized finance. GTJAI will take this issuance as an opportunity to further explore innovative directions such as cross-border digital asset circulation and the digitization of green finance, with a view to providing more digital solutions to the global financial market and aligning with industry trends towards intelligent transformation and sustainable development of the international financial system.
This also marks the first digitally native bond to utilize ePrime Issuance Service for book building, representing a significant milestone in the ongoing collaboration between GTJAI and BCCL in offshore bond issuance. ePrime Issuance Service is committed to continuously enhancing the overall efficiency in the bookbuilding process and will continue to support innovation in bond issuances.
In collaboration with CFETS and launched in 2020, ePrime is an electronic solution for the primary bond market across the issuers, underwriters and investors specialized in the China cross-border workflow. It has two components to cater issuance and subscription applications: ePrime global issuance service and ePrime Northbound primary service. ePrime global issuance service offers a platform for issuing, primary book building, pricing and allocation for offshore securities including US dollar-denominated bonds, Renminbi bonds, Hong Kong dollar bonds and other currencies. It has successfully supported various issuances from policy banks and commercial banks and onboarded 43 offshore underwriters. ePrime Northbound primary service allows offshore investors to participate in the Northbound subscription of CIBM new issuances by establishing connectivity with CFETS systems. The cross-border service has attracted registration by more than 60 offshore investors and facilitated offshore participation in the subscriptions of Chinese government bonds, policy financial bonds, green bonds, super short-term commercial papers, etc.
Please contact us at eprime@chinabondconnect.com / (852) 2327 0398 for enquiries.
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