Capital markets news | Fri 23 May 2025
Equity
- ICT Zone Asia’s ACE Market IPO oversubscribed 1.89 times Edge
- MaiStorage targets Bursa listing by 2028 Edge
- Symphony Life plans RM23m private placement for Lembah Ledang project Edge
- Bursa launches Shares2U to boost retail investor participation Star
- Barakah to be suspended on 30 May, faces delisting Edge
- Pharmaniaga gets 3 months extension for regularisation plan Star
- PN17 companies struggle to stay afloat NST
- China plans regulation to aid tech firms listing overseas Edge
- Ryan Reynolds’ MNTN raises USD187.2m in US IPO NST Star
- Strategy plans USD2.1b sale of its perpetual strife preferred stock Coindesk
Debt
- Zamarad’s sukuk tranche ratings affirmed RAM
- Cahya Mata Sarawak’s AA3, P1 ratings affirmed RAM
- AMMB’s AA2, P1 ratings affirmed RAM
- Perdana Petroleum exploring financing plans for fleet renewal Edge
- Maju Expressway’s bondholders hold out for solution Edge
- Country Garden debt plan gets nearly 75% of bondholders’ support Edge
- China’s Bilibili launches USD575m convertible notes offering Edge
- New World has support from 10 banks for loan refinancing Edge
- Japan’s possible response to rise in super-long bond yields Yahoo
- BOJ policymaker rules out intervention to stem bond yield spike Yahoo
- Private credit funds target billions in retail demand from Asia Edge
- Treasuries vie for demand with Japan’s bonds Yahoo
- US Treasuries sell-off remains orderly Yahoo
- Bond market warns Trump, Congress on dangers of swelling deficit Edge Star Yahoo
- US Congress doesn’t care about the debt Yahoo
- Fed’s Perli encourages firms’ use of standing repo facility Yahoo
- Global bond markets signal governments must pay more to borrow long-term Yahoo
Digital assets
- Bitcoin rally takes largest token past USD111k for first time Edge Mail Yahoo
- Bitcoin traders aggressively shorting as it hits new record high Coindesk
- Bitcoin looks exhausted as next bear market yields USD69k target Cointelegraph
- First US XRP futures ETF begins trading on Nasdaq Coindesk
- Memecoin MOODENG, MEW surge after Robinhood listing Coindesk
- USD400m Coinbase breach exposes crypto’s dark side Coindesk
- Sui validators freeze majority of stolen funds in USD220m Cetus hack Cointelegraph
- Global Dollar’s USDG eyes hundreds of partners attracted by yield Coindesk
- Banks are panicking about yield-bearing stablecoins Cointelegraph
- US stablecoin bill approval could trigger long-term crypto bull market Coindesk
- Crypto’s real momentum isn’t in the charts, it’s in developer activity Cointelegraph
- Centrifuge expands tokenised RWAs to Solana, starting with Treasury fund Coindesk
- Major TradFi institutions to pursue tokenisation efforts on Solana Coindesk
- Kraken to list tokenised version of Nvidia, Apple, Tesla shares Coindesk
Malaysian
- BNM likely to cut rates in 2025 amid growth concerns Edge
- International reserves touch 7-month high Edge NST Star
- Ringgit could strengthen if RM265b foreign deposits converted Edge Mail
- Apr inflation steady as food prices rise at slower pace Edge NST Star
- Fiscal consolidation remains on track with lower 1Q deficit Edge Star
- EPF’s external fund managers contributed 24% of investment income Edge NST Star
- SC sees growing demand for single family office incentive Edge NST Star
- Asean Summit to potentially unlock RM300b FDIs for Malaysia Edge Mail
- Malaysia to lead regional grid integration starting with Vietnam-Singapore link Edge
- MACC opened 3 investigation papers on MEX II bribery, false claims Edge
- MACC freezes RM217m linked to Tan Sri in GLC money laundering probe Edge