据直接知情人士透露，中国电子商务零售商京东正在推进未来几个月在香港第二上市的计划，尽管新冠疫情仍在搅动金融市场走势。

他们表示，在纳斯达克上市的京东已经秘密向香港交易所提交申请，最早6月在香港上市，该交易至少可筹集30亿美元，将是今年香港最大的股票资本市场交易。

京东未回复置评请求。由于信息尚未公开，消息人士不愿具名。

京东已任命美国银行、中信里昂证券和瑞银牵头该交易。不过这三家银行的发言人对京东秘密申请香港上市一事不予置评。

路孚特数据显示，根据最新收盘股价计算，京东的市值约640亿美元。京东纽约盘周二收报43.58美元。

JD.com applies for $3 billion Hong Kong secondary listing

Chinese e-commerce retailer JD.com is pressing ahead with plans for a secondary listing in Hong Kong within the next few months despite the coronavirus pandemic still roiling financial markets, said sources with direct knowledge of the matter.

The Nasdaq-listed company has confidentially made an application to the Hong Kong Stock Exchange to list as soon as June, in a deal that could raise at least $3 billion, which would be the largest equity capital market transaction in Hong Kong this year, they said.

A JD.com spokeswoman declined to comment. The sources did not want to be identified as the information has not been made public.

The company has appointed Bank of America, CLSA and UBS to lead the deal. The spokespeople of the three banks declined to comment on the confidential filings made by JD.com.

The Beijing-headquartered company has a $64 billion market capitalisation, according to Refinitiv data based on its most recent closing share price.

Its shares closed at $43.58 in New York on Tuesday.

A secondary listing of the company would provide a boost for Hong Kong’s capital markets which have suffered a marked slowdown in big ticket deals since Alibaba’s $13 billion transaction in November last year.