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Hong Kong’s listed bond market continued to grow in the first quarter with a significant increase in both the number of listed bonds and amount of funds raised. A total of 126 bonds had listed on HKEX’s market as of end-March, raising more than HK$380 billion, up 38.5% and 24.6% year-on-year respectively. There were a total of 1,638 outstanding bonds in the market, with a total amount outstanding of around HK$6 trillion.
In March alone, HKEX welcomed 38 bonds to its market, raising more than HK$90.5 billion, up 35.7% and 8.8% from same period last year respectively.
Quarterly number of newly listed bonds and funds raised since 2020:
Source: HKEX
Hong Kong has one of the most developed and liquid bond markets in Asia, offering a diverse range of debt securities products to serve different investors’ needs. Listed debt securities in the Hong Kong market include government and corporate bonds, floating-rate notes, long-term mortgage-backed notes, index-linked bonds, exchange fund bonds. Among them, the most common ones are bonds issued by corporates and government, and HKEX has facilitated the listings of more than 38 government and corporate bonds in March.
Did you know?
Although the majority of the bonds listed in Hong Kong are available only to professional investors, there are some listed bonds that can be offered to the public. We call them "retail bonds". The inflation-linked retail bond (iBond) issued by the HKSAR Government is one such bonds available to retail investors.
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