“[It] contains exaggerations.”
That’s what Guosen Securities (China’s eighth-largest investment bank) had to say when asked about FT’s assertion that the investment bank’s Hong Kong affiliate has defaulted on a dim sum bond. Apparently, an affiliated SPV issued the debt back in 2014 and according to Bank of New York Mellon (the offering’s trustee), Guosen HK is in violation of some part of the bond’s keepwell agreement.