Bond Trust embarks on venture investment in biotechnology Firms

Jul 2022 — Bond Trust launches an investment team focusing on applying the latest AI technology on biology, especially on new drug discovery processes.

Alphafold has demonstrated how to solve a 50-year old important protein 3D structure problem through deep learning, opening the door for a rush of new opportunities for drug discovery. Isomorphic Labs is one such promising firm started by the Google Deepmind team.

Bond Trust aims to capitalize on this landmark breakthrough opportunity to identify early stage venture investment opportunities in Asia, where many new biotechnology firms have started to develop first-in-the-class new drugs.

Bond Trust applies Financial Technology (FinTech) to high frequency trading

Sept 2021 — Bond Trust teamed up with a research team at the Hong Kong Graduate School of Advanced Studies, utilizing FinTech Deep Learning models to predict short-term stock price movements.

The new features extracted from the high frequency trading data provides a new foundation for generating short-term Alpha in the competitive high frequency trading markets, currently dominated by a few large players.

Bond Trust aims to give more market participants the FinTech tools to enhance their trade execution in the global markets.

Bond Trust publishes the first comprehensive research on Investment in the China Non-Performing Loan Market

May 2019 --- Bond Trust, a China focused asset management and advisory firm, published the first comprehensive research paper “A Primer for Non-Performing Loan Investment in China” for international institutional investors.

China’s distressed asset market is estimated at US$1-1.5 trillion, making it the world’s largest. Chinese banks are under ever increasing regulatory scrutiny to recognize and dispose of the NPLs on their balance sheets. The major domestic NPL players, including the four large national Asset Management Companies (HuaRong, Cinda, GreatWall and Orient) and around 60 provincial ones, have been filled up to their capacity amid rising NPL supply wave and slowing NPL recovery process. Many aggressive players who bought NPLs at the price peak in 2017 have been experiencing difficulty in working out cash recovery and realizing reasonable return. A few local China NPL funds had become non-performing themselves, causing a rapid cool-off in NPL investment in China.

Bond Trust has developed a proprietary valuation model for China NPL portfolio, and has assembled one of the most experienced team in the China NPL market. Bond Trust projects that the returns for China NPL investment will likely rebound to high teens for astute investors in 2019 and beyond. International Institutional Investors can tap into this opportunity by teaming up with a knowledgeable local partner, especially one with skin in the game as a co-equity investor.

Bond Trust coordinates a large US$670 mil technology IPO with innovative retail participation

November 2017 --- Bond Trust, a China focused asset management and advisory firm, announced the successful coordination of US$670 million IPO transaction for one of largest internet company in China. With efficient coordination among leading investment banks, the transaction was priced at the high end of indicative price range. Bond Trust brought in a large retail brokerage platform to assist distribution to the Chinese retail investors, expanding further from the traditional institutional investor base.

Charles Huang, CEO of Bond Trust, commented: "We are excited in assisting the leading Chinese internet company in one of the largest IPOs in the recent history. With strong coverage of anchor investors and capital market expertise, we are fortune to tap the strong investor demand before the window shut down one week later."

The strong after-market retail purchase of the stock has demonstrated the power and potential of Chinese retail investors in offshore IPOs. Bond Trust expects to further develop its retail distribution expertise in coordination with large retail brokers.

 

Bond Trust announces a successful RMB 3 bil creative content fund

October 2016 --- Bond Trust, a China focused asset management and advisory firm, announced the successful RMB 3 billion financing transaction for a large China based content fund.

Charles Huang, CEO of Bond Trust, commented: "We are happy to assist the financing to establish a leading China focused creative content fund. With innovative structure design, we are able to tap into the demand from traditional banks and mezzanine funds."

Vice President from the participating bank commented: “We would like thank Bond Trust for the opportunity to join this innovative structured fund transaction. We wish all successes to this new content fund.”

 

Bond Trust announces successful US$150 million financing for a Chinese PE firm

June 2013 --- Bond Trust, a China focused asset management and advisory firm, announced the successful closing of US$150 million structured equity financing transactions for one of largest private equity fund in China. The financings proceeds have been invested into a leading Chinese automobile manufacturer.

Charles Huang, CEO of Bond Trust, commented: "We are happy to assist the leading Chinese PE firm in executing this innovative cross border transaction. With strong expertise in structured finance expertise and China transaction experience, we have once again demonstrated our capacity of arranging cross border PE transactions in China."

Deputy CEO of the PE fund commented: "We benefited from Bond Trust"s experienced professional team in this transaction. Bond Trust has delivered in an efficient and cost-effective manner."

 

Bond Trust announces a fund manager incubation internet platform in China

December 2012 --- Bond Trust, a China focused asset management and advisory firm, announced the industry"s first stock fund manager incubation internet platform in China. This innovative platform allows professional traders to show-case their trading capability in real-time and in 100% transparent fashion, to record their rationale behind each trading decision, and to review their trading results afterwards.

Charles Huang, CEO of Bond Trust, commented: "We are proud to lead China"s internet stock trading space, by bringing this cutting edge fund manager incubation platform to the market, which is expected to benefit tens of thousands of professional traders in China".

Paul Chan, Finance Director of Bond Trust, added: "Bond Trust plans to allocate significant amount of capital to successful traders, and help them to become professional managers."

 

Bond Trust announces a leading Alpha Generation Platform in China
August 2010 --- Bond Trust, a China focused asset management and advisory firm, announced a cutting edge BT Alpha Generation Platform for institutional investors. The platform employs comprehensive proprietary strategy description script, and multi-thread analytics engine, enabling systematic investment strategy development. The event driven strategies are capable of utilizing both fundamental and technical data of all listed companies in China, supported by a real time database capable of capturing high volume Leve-2 trading data.

Charles Huang, CEO of Bond Trust, commented: “With many years of research and development, our team is proud to release this state-of-the-art Alpha Generation Platform. We believe that our platform technology and architecture are competitive internationally, and probably the most advanced in China.”

With the assistance of this powerful platform, Bond Trust is refining its quantitative asset management strategies, and plans to launch a few funds in 2011.

Bond Trust announces successful RMB 1.5 billion financing for a global PE firm
August 2009 --- Bond Trust, a China focused asset management and advisory firm, announced the successful closing of RMB 1.5 billion long term financing transactions for one of largest private equity fund in the world. The financings have been collateralized by commercial properties purchased in China.

Charles Huang, CEO of Bond Trust, commented: “We are happy to assist in this record setting transaction amid the global market turmoil started in 2008. With an unique combination of international banking expertise and China distribution network, we have once again demonstrated our capacity of arranging large real estate transactions in China.”

Principal of the PE fund commented: “We appreciate the professionalism and China network extended by Bond Trust, and would like congratulate them on the job well done. Bond Trust has delivered a top notch service with Chinese expertise.”

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