Capital markets news | Thu 19 Jun 2025

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Equity

  • Pan Merchant deserves higher valuations Edge
  • A1 AK Koh launches ACE Market IPO at 25 sen Edge
  • ACE Market-listed LGMS eyes transfer to Main Market by 4Q Edge Star
  • Danantara, INA to invest in Chandra Asri Star
  • China to set up new STAR Market segment for pre-profit companies Edge NST
  • Alibaba-backed AI firm MiniMax plans Hong Kong IPO Edge
  • Private equity sits on USD1t amid uncertainties, M&A stalls Edge
  • Ubyx raises USD10m to standardise stablecoin redemption Cointelegraph
  • AI startup Anysphere fields VC offers at over USD18b valuation Yahoo

Debt

  • Malaysia scores record flows as bond investors favour Asia Edge NST Star Yahoo
  • Rising SME loan risks may lift banking sector credit costs NST
  • Singapore lender DBS aims to double Australian lending book in 5 years Edge
  • India’s Sebi eases rules for global funds buying sovereign bonds Edge
  • A 200%-plus bond rally sours as Lebanon’s reform story stalls Edge
  • Cracks are forming in foreign demand for US Treasury bonds Yahoo
  • Central banks have dumped USD48b in Treasuries Yahoo
  • US planning to ease capital rule limiting banks’ Treasury trades Edge Star Yahoo
  • US plan for bank leverage relief may underwhelm US Treasury market Yahoo
  • Blackstone sees USD200b in potential European credit deals Edge

Digital assets

  • Bitcoin below USD100k less likely as liquidity builds up at USD106k Cointelegraph
  • Chinese bitcoin mining machine makers set up US production to beat tariffs Edge
  • Standard Chartered sees growth in non-stablecoin tokenisation Coindesk
  • Crypto lenders hold nearly USD60b of assets Coindesk
  • Next wave of RWAs is becoming crypto’s real edge Coindesk
  • Startup looking to pay 30% yield by tokenising AI infrastructure Coindesk
  • Coinbase Derivatives, Nodal Clear to use USDC as collateral Coindesk
  • UK to propose restrictions on how banks can deal with crypto Coindesk

M&A

  • Farm Price to expand grocery products business via acquisitions Edge Star
  • Indonesia antitrust agency gives go-ahead for TikTok-Tokopedia merger Edge
  • HSBC names Chua as head of M&A in pivot to Asia, Middle East Edge
  • Nippon Steel’s acquisition of US Steel closes, with big role for Trump Edge

Malaysian

  • Malaysia at the centre of Asean Power Grid talks Star
  • Court orders Public Bank to pay National Feedlot Corp RM90m in damages Edge

Other markets

  • Indonesia holds rate to shield rupiah from trade, Mideast risks Edge NST
  • Chile holds rates at 5%, leaves future cuts open Star
  • China to hike quota for investors buying overseas assets Edge
  • China’s central bank chief envisions new world currency order after dollar era Edge
  • China talks up digital yuan in push for multi-polar currency system Edge NST
  • BOJ’s inflation warning leaves room for another rate hike this year Yahoo
  • Top Morgan Stanley Asia banker targets USD10b revenue Star
  • Early Fed chair nomination could rattle markets Yahoo
  • US Fed keeps rates unchanged Edge NST Star Coindesk Yahoo
  • McKinsey’s clients rethinking US assets Star
  • Swedish central bank cuts key interest rate to 2% NST

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