HSBC issues first corporate HKEX-listed digitally native notes

The bank expects to see increasing demand for digital bonds from the private sector.

Global bank HSBC has issued its first HK$1 billion $130 million Hong Kong dollar-denominated senior unsecured fixed rate digitally native notes DNNs on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange HKEX. 

The DNNs are 3.6% and due 2025 under the bank’s $20 billion medium term note programme, and were issued with a T2 settlement window. 

FinanceAsia understands that this is the first digitally native bond by a private sector issuer in Hong Kong, as well as the first English law digital bond issuance in Hong Kong.

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