Philippine Airlines, under the ownership of billionaire Lucio Tan, renowned for his ventures in the tobacco and banking sectors, has successfully garnered US$300 million via a five-year bond sale. This strategic move is aimed at financing the carrier’s…
Standard Chartered Bank China (SCB China) recently completed its first-ever Qualified Foreign Investor (QFI) investment in China Government Bond (CGB) Futures following the market’s recent opening. The bank served in dual roles, both as the QFI’s custodian…
The Swiss Federal Administrative Court issued a partial ruling on October 13, 2025, which put up for debate the legality associated with deeming Credit Suisse’s Additional Tier 1 (AT1) bonds as worthless. The ruling came in response to an appeal lodged by…
HSBC has reportedly lost four bankers in its debt capital markets team covering Chinese state-owned enterprises as the business faces pressure from the Huawei incident and stressed relations with the U.K. Managing directors John Hai and Jiang Song have left…
E-commerce platform Tiki has raised VND1 trillion (nearly $43.5 million) over the last three months by issuing corporate bonds. Issued from 16 March to June 13, the bonds are non-convertible with a fixed interest rate of 13 percent per annum, one of the…
The bank has priced S$600 million of perpetual capital securities at a fixed coupon rate of 2.55 percent – the lowest for benchmark perpetual securities for banks in Singapore. UOB is piloting the digital issuance of its latest bond offering on…
DBS Bank (China) announced that it received a Bond Settlement Agent license in the China Interbank Bond Market, making it the first and only Singapore bank to be granted such a license. DBS Bank (China) has received a Bond Settlement Agent license from the…
Further extending its deep connection with the James Bond franchise, Aston Martin has recently revealed the carmaker’s new mid-engined hypercar Valhalla will be a part of the upcoming 25th Bond movie, staring actor Daniel Craig. In addition to the recently…
The Aston Martin DBS Superleggera is set to become the newest James Bond-inspired car, thanks to the most recent collaboration between Aston Martin and EON Productions. To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the James Bond film, On Her Majesty’s Secret Service,…
State-owned bank offers green Silk Road bond in three currencies one week after a similar exercise by rival Bank of China. Acting through its Singapore branch, the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC), the world’s biggest bank by assets, has issued…
India’s central bank unexpectedly lowered interest rates and, as anticipated, shifted its stance to “neutral” from “calibrated tightening” to boost a slowing economy after a sharp fall in the inflation rate. The monetary policy committee (MPC) of the Reserve…
State-owned mining holding company Indonesia Asahan Aluminium, better known as Inalum, sold bonds worth $4 billion in its first-ever US dollar bond deal on Thursday to fund the acquisition of a majority stake in the Grasberg copper mine in Papua. The deal…
The Philippines plans to sell at least 30 billion pesos ($596 million) worth of three-year retail treasury bonds to provide small investors with safe investment options, the Bureau of Treasury said on Thursday. It would be the second retail bond issue under…
For a long time, Hong Kong people and corporates enjoyed a free ride on the renminbi as the Chinese currency promised steady appreciation and high returns. But the steep devaluation this week has spoilt the party for good, and everyone — be it multinational…
Singapore’s plan to launch a savings bond to encourage long-term retail savings is unsettling domestic banks and economists who fear this bond will push interest rates up and suck cash out from an already anaemic economy. The new bond, which will begin…