Daily Brief Financials: China Vast Industrial Urban Development, Ethereum, Bank Central Asia, Go Digit General Insurance, Country Garden Holdings Co, Altered State Token, MSCI Inc and more

• China Vast Industrial Urban Development (6166 HK)‘s scheme document is out with the court meeting scheduled for 23 November. The IFA considers the offer to be fair and reasonable. 
• Key conditions include approval by at least 75% of independent shareholders (<10% rejection). Shareholders with blocking stakes either provided irrecovables or will likely support the offer.
• The offer is not great but headcount test is not applicable. At last close and for the 14 December payment, the gross and annualised spread is 0.8% and 6.7%, respectively.

• Hong Kong government published on Oct 31 a statement titled “Policy Statement on Development of Virtual Assets in Hong Kong” with a much friendlier stance on crypto industry
• The policy statement mainly focuses on crypto asset ETF, NFT, tokenized assets, stablecoin, and e-HKD; while utility tokens are missing from it.
• While this has been perceived positively by the industry, the biggest concern is still the regulatory uncertainty, especially considering mainland China’s outright ban on all crypto-related activity

• Bank Central Asia (BBCA IJ) released a robust set of 9M2022 results driven by loan growth across all segments together with low-cost CASA funding and falling provisioning.
• The bank demonstrated its leadership in transactional banking with total transactions growing +48% YoY, with 89% in volume terms and 59% in value terms through mobile and internet banking. 
• Bank Central Asia (BBCA IJ) continues to be a core holding and trades at a premium to its peers for good reason and it has already demonstrated its digital prowess.

• Go Digit General Insurance is looking to raise about US$503m in its upcoming India IPO. The deal will be run by ICICISec, MS, Axis, Edelweiss, HDFC Bank and IIFL.
• Go Digit General Insurance is a digital full stack insurance company, offering motor insurance, health insurance, travel insurance, property insurance, marine insurance, liability insurance and other insurance products.
• In this note, we talk about the positive aspects of the deal.

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• CIFI Holdings
• Country Garden Holdings Co
• Longfor Properties
• Vedanta Resources

• FIFA, who recently launched FIFA+ Collect, have stepped up their Web3 game with yet another partnership.
• This one is a bit more niche and complex. Equally, it’s potentially more interesting than the more generic highlight reel based moments that FIFA dropped a couple of weeks ago.
• Basically, this is an NFT, that uses AI to train itself to interact with a number of different digital environments in several different ways.

• The International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB) recently confirmed important aspects of its proposed sustainability reporting standards. One step closer to a unified standard.
• Particularly noteworthy is confirmation that disclosures of Scope 3 emissions will be required. Scope 3 emissions are largely unreported, but account for the majority of total emissions.
• Scope 3 disclosure could have repercussions for ESG ratings, ESG indices based on ESG ratings, and potentially (though too soon to tell) reconstutions of exchange-traded funds.