Searching for KungFu Bonds (Chinese-issued U.S. dollars bonds) with RDP Libraries — Search function

Jonathan Legrand
LSEG Developer Community
2 min readDec 7, 2022

Find Raksina Samasiri and Mary Cai’s full article on the Refinitiv Data Portal here.

The Greater Bay Area (GBA) has a proportionally large population (86M) and GDP ($1.6T), and it is teeming with potential for profitable investment opportunities across multiple asset classes. However, the ability to identify exact investment opportunities and consolidate GBA data sources isn’t straightforward. While it is not available directly in Eikon Application/Refinitiv workspace yet, you will find, in this article, a workflow to do just that using Refinitiv APIs.

In this article, we’re focusing on Kung Fu Bonds (bonds issued by a Chinese entity in USD currency), a market whose growth has accelerated ceaselessly (~6,000 Active Kung Fu bonds as of today). Hence, Refinitiv Data Platform (RDP) libraries are ideal to create the solution to identify, aggregate and visualize KungFu bonds.

The best part is that you don’t need a Python environment to run this code. CodeBook is sufficient!

Read more HERE!

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