Issuance of corporate bonds shows signs of recovery

Issuance of corporate bonds shows signs of recovery

VCN - In the first half of the year, the volume of newly issued bonds showed signs of recovery from the second quarter after Decree 08 took effect. After the moves to purify the corporate bond market in 2022, the restructuring and making the market transparent, and regaining investors' trust will still be a priority in the long-term policy. And this started with the launch of a private corporate bond trading system on the HNX.
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The private corporate bond exchange is officially launched on July 19, 2023. Photo: Collected
The private corporate bond exchange is officially launched on July 19, 2023. Photo: Collected

Showing signs of recovery in some specific groups

Commenting on the corporate bond market in the first six months of 2023, SSI Securities Joint Stock Company said that the issuance of Decree 08/2023/ND-CP has provided a suitable legal corridor for the extension/ suspension of payment of bond principal/interest and this has helped the issuance in the primary market to be somewhat more active.

Volume of newly issued bonds showed signs of recovery from the second quarter after Decree 08 took effect. By sector, real estate took the lead and accounted for 57% of total issued volume, followed by banks with 31%. Enterprises tended to focus on negotiating the extension/ suspension of debt payment with bondholders rather than accelerating acquisitions as seen at the end of 2022.

Total issued bond volume reduced in the first quarter of 2023 but showed signs of recovery in the second quarter. The VND57.3 trillion worth of privately corporate bonds were released in the first six months of 2023, down 67.8% year-on-year. Meanwhile the volume of public offerings only reached VND 5.5 trillion, down 37.9% year-on-year.

It is worth noting that bonds of real estate enterprises accounted for the highest rate (57%) in the primary market but only focused on a few issuers. Banks boosted issuance from the second quarter and accounted for 31% of the total issued volume because they had solved problems in the audit report on disbursement of bond funds.

According to SSI, after the Van Thinh Phat incident at the end of 2022, the bond acquisition activity of real estate enterprises took place quite strongly, but has slowed down since Decree 08 was issued.

Specifically, bond acquisition activity of real estate enterprises decreased to VND 24.7 trillion in the second quarter of 2023 from a peak of VND 34.8 trillion in the fourth quarter of 2022.

“We also saw the bank accelerate bond bond acquisition in the second quarter, mainly related to the term structure for the purpose of raising Tier 2 capital.”

The secondary corporate bond exchange will help demand for corporate bond recover

The most notable information in the corporate bond market in the recent times is the launching of the secondary private corporate bond exchange from July 19, 2023. All in all, this is a good start, but only by keeping a good liquidity scale with lots of traded bonds can maintain existing benefits of the secondary exchange to the market.

According to SSI's estimates, there will be a total of VND 733 trillion of bonds or 455 issuers to register on HNX within three months from July 19, 2023. To date, only 19 codes issued from Tracodi, Vietcombank and Vinfast have been registered with a total value of VND9 trillion.

The primary benefit of a secondary exchange is transparency. Previously, although issuers were obliged to report information on issuances to HNX, the access to information about issuance such as issuance purposes, collateral assets, and interest rates or the depository participating institution, or information about the remaining outstanding balance of corporate bonds or the financial situation of the issuer is quite difficult. In addition, secondary transactions and monitoring of money flows on the secondary market are nearly impossible due to the lack of a public market. As a result, this exchange can provide investors with easier and more formal access to research and track the yield curve/price movement, especially for unlisted issuers.

Besides, in an efficient market, the transactions of buyers and sellers on the secondary market will determine the trend of bond yields and will serve as directional indicators to identify risks of the issuer's financial health or macro fluctuations in the market.

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“With all of the above benefits, we assess that the launching of a secondary corporate bond exchange will help the demand for corporate bonds recover, first of all from institutional investors with abundant capital and high demand of investment portfolio diversification. For individual investors, perhaps there is still more work to be done to regain investment confidence and sentiment," said SSI.

By Hoai Anh/ Huyen Trang

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