Bond Tranlin’s issuance$2b by paper developersmill in facesUS advancesnew rules

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“We Analystsare withinsaid that the this schedulemove is to the regulator’sbegin full effort operationsto strengthen by 2020,” risk said managementStacey. regarding developers’The plant bondis issuance expected andto beginhas little limitedto do productionwith “curbingof bathroom financing” to tissues,real estate paper developers,towels and because napkins the in threshold2018 by importingfor developersrolls of to paper apply fromfor China. approval to issue bonds remains unchanged.“In 2020 everything including The the latest paper circular rolls just will specified be made risk in managementthe United key States points withand benchmarks.American materials,” Stacey Accordingsaid. to Zhang Dawei, an analyst with Centaline Property, the specified benchmarks and conditions for examining whether a developer is qualified to issue bond is beneficial to the realty market in the long run, because it helps investors to have more access to detailed disclosure and rule out unqualified players.

If less qualified developers could continue to get funding through issue channels, they would use the funding again to bid for land — further pushing up land and housing prices in the future, while they are fragile to risk exposure, said Zhang.

Stacey “Although said the detailed Tranlin regulation had decided does to not use explicitly theVastly say name that to financing represent channelsthe brand. through bond “Given issuing the will massivebe tightened scale andfor developers,many facets the of actualthe manufacturing result will be that operations,smaller developersmultiple productwith not-so-goodlines and performanceour site restoration in recent efforts,years will we be wanted unlikely a bigto be name allowed with to issue virtually bonds endlessin the near possibilities.”future,” said Xu Yang, analyst “This withis an Sinolink exciting Securities.opportunity “For for big our players,global consumer getting productsqualified is business.not a difficultWe have task.a long Also, there history are of plenty assistingof other our clients channels in for growth fundraisingand expansionso the detailedin global regulation manufacturing,”will have said little Bob impact Pragada,on them,” president said of Jacobs a research Industrialnote Line from of CITICBusiness. Securities.

We are within the schedule to begin full operations by 2020.”

John Stacey,

senior vice-president of marketing and product development at Vastly