By Kane Wu
HONG KONG (Reuters) -JingDong Industrials, a unit of Chinese online retailer JD.com, is seeking to raise $500 million with a Hong Kong initial public offering (IPO) as soon as the end of October, two sources with direct knowledge said, after the firm cleared a key regulatory hurdle.
The company, also known as JDi, refiled for a Hong Kong listing on Sunday after receiving the green light from China’s securities regulator last week, more than two years after it first notified the China Securities Regulatory Commission of its offering plans, according to the regulator’s disclosures.
The company is planning to launch the offering as soon as possible and complete it in November if it misses a window in October, the sources said. They declined to be identified because the informati