The nine investors are Haitong Securities Co., Ltd. (SHSE: 600837), China Pacific Asset Management Co., Ltd., Youngor Group, Ping An Asset Management Co., Ltd., Aegon-Industrial Fund Management Co., Ltd., China National Offshore Oil Corp., Nice Group, Taikang Asset Management Co., Ltd. and Liu Yiqian.
CITIC Securities Co., Ltd. (SHSE: 600030) will serve as the co-sponsor and together with Guotai and Junan Securities Co., Ltd. and UBS Securities, it will act as the co-lead undertaker, too. The shares, with a 12-month lockup period, are priced at CNY 16.59 per share and the net the bank gains will reach about CNY 14.83 billion. Its core capital adequacy ratio and capital adequacy ratio will rise to 6.2 percent and 9.63 percent after the share issue. Total capital stock will increase to 8.83 billion shares and net assets attributable to parent's shareholders will surge by 31.68 percent.
Shanghai International Group, the biggest shareholder of the bank, did not participate in the share issue. As a result, its stake in the latter will be diluted to 27.7 percent from previously 30.86 percent. Haitong Securities and Youngor Group will edge onto the bank's top ten shareholders tally with a 1.36 percent stake and a 1.27 percent stake in it, each.
The bank's capital adequacy ratio and core capital adequacy ratio stood at 8.72 percent and 4.84 percent as at the end of March 2009, compared to minimums of eight percent and four percent by the China Banking Regulatory Commission, the top Chinese banking regulator. In order to replenish capital, it in May 2009 gained shareholder approval to raise CNY 15 billion via additional share issue and another CNY 15 billion via subordinated bond issue.
SPD Bank closed at CNY 19.67 on September 29, representing a premium of 18.57 percent.
Actually, a list of Chinese commercial banks have cast eye on additional share and bond issue. Bank of China (BoC, SEHK: 3988 and SHSE: 601988), one of the nation's Big Four state-owned commercial lenders, issued CNY 40 billion subordinated bonds on July 6. Bank of Communications (BoCom, SEHK: 3328 and SHSE: 601328), the fifth biggest Chinese commercial bank, issued CNY 25 billion subordinated bonds in early July.
(USD 1 = CNY 6.83)
Source: www.cnstock.com (September 30, 2009)

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