Tencent has raised $6bn in the latest big-ticket dollar bond sale in Asia, where issuers have tapped markets for a record of nearly $150bn in dollar-denominated funding so far this year.
The Chinese social media and gaming group priced the four-tranche dollar bond on Thursday, according to a term sheet seen by the Financial Times. The deal comes on the heels of a strong first-quarter performance for Tencent and marks the largest dollar bond sale by a Chinese company this year.
The largest, 10-year tranche of $2.24bn delivers annual interest payments of 2.39 per cent, or about 1.7 percentage points above the current 10-year US Treasury yield. The company also priced its first 40-year debt, raising $750m at a coupon of 3.29 per cent.