Capital markets news | Mon 11 Aug 2025
Do you know?
- In 2024, two companies transferred their listings from the LEAP Market to the ACE Market: Metro Healthcare and Topvision. So far in 2025, Lim Seong Hai and Fibromat have done the same.
Equity
- MCOM reprimanded over failure to issue financial statements Edge NST Star
- Bursa transitions to electronic statements, notices from 25 Aug Edge Mail NST
- Annum to be delisted from Main Market Star
- SGX sees 30 potential IPOs in the pipeline Edge Star
- China equity market value nears watershed level on fund inflow Edge
- SoftBank selects banks for US IPO of payments app PayPay Yahoo
- World Liberty pitches USD1.5b crypto vehicle Edge Coindesk Cointelegraph
- Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac USD30b IPO being weighed for this year Star
- Why new IPOs are crushing it out of the block Yahoo
- Bit Digital raises USD67m from placement to B. Riley Yahoo
- Hedge funds flip on green energy and start betting against oil Yahoo
- Norway wealth fund to announce measures on Israeli investments on Tue Edge
- Computer-driven traders are bullish on stocks, humans are bears Edge
Debt
- HSBC Malaysia and HSBC Amanah AAA ratings affirmed RAM
- Indera Persada’s rated bonds AA1 rating affirmed RAM
- City Coin’s investment notes R4 rating affirmed RAM
- Kedah assigned AA- sub-sovereign rating MARC NST
- Sentoria receives termination notice on RM33.3m Affin Bank loan Edge
- Bina Puri seeks CDRC’s help to mediate talks with lenders Edge
- Indonesia’s benchmark yield falls to lowest in almost 2 years Edge
- Foreigners net buy USD11m Vietnam bonds in Jul Star
- China ends tax exemption on bond interest income Edge NST
- Apollo boosts SoftBank loan to a record-breaking USD5.4b Edge
- Private credit fuels a BNPL lending boom in Asia Star
- Meta picks Pimco, Blue Owl for USD29b data centre deal Edge NST
- JPMorgan says Treasury curve can steepen on Miran Fed pick Edge
- US Treasury yields rise Star
- Everything’s expensive Edge
- Asia Pacific weathers tariff storm Star
- Burned investors find relief Star
Digital assets
- Crypto’s USD25b spree sparks unease even among insiders Edge
- Stablecoin growth is hampered by nagging foreign exchange costs Edge
- China tells brokers to stop touting stablecoins to cool frenzy Edge
- Bitcoin trails gold in 2025 but dominates long-term returns Coindesk
- Bitcoin traders see USD120k next Cointelegraph
- Pendle’s TVL hits record USD8.3b after yield-trading platform debut Coindesk
- Gold-backed tokens drive minting record over tariff Coindesk
- Swiss bank Sygnum launches regulated SUI custody and trading Coindesk
M&A
- Hong Seng sells 32.6% stake in Classita to NexG for RM60.3m Star
- Berjaya Assets settles suit on aborted Sarawak gaming firm buy Edge
- SkyWorld buys RM83m Seberang Perai land for factory Edge NST Star
- Paramount buys Kulim land for RM128.7m for RM946m township Edge Star
- Mah Sing acquires land within KLCC for RM260m Star
- Hong Kong’s New World in talks with Blackstone, CapitaLand for asset sales Edge
- SoftBank buys Foxconn’s Ohio plant to jump-start Stargate AI push Edge
- Disney’s ESPN to buy NFL Network in stock swap Star
- Boeing’s USD4.7b Spirit deal cleared by UK watchdog Edge
Malaysian
- Unlicensed futures trader gets 20 years’ jail, RM9m fine for palm oil fraud Edge Star
- Police question 37 victims, 3 witnesses over RM8.4m losses Edge
- KAF Digital Bank gets nod from BNM to start services on Fri Mail
- Over 38k MSMEs digitalised under Madani grant in 2024 Edge NST
- Digital payments soar 71% as Jun retail and wholesale sales hit RM153b Edge Mail Star
- Finance Ministry sees moderate growth in 2026 Mail NST Star
- Matrade supports RM2.09t export target by 2030 Edge NST Star
- Majority of chip exports to US may escape 100% tariff NST Star
- New data centres will add 2m cars worth of emissions Edge
- Thailand’s B. Grimm eyes RM4.26b investment in renewable energy NST
Other markets
- Indonesia names 2 lawmakers as first suspects in central bank graft case Edge
- Singapore, China, Malaysia dominate foreign investment in Indonesia Edge
- China’s trade turnover with Asean rises by 8.2% to USD596.99b in Jan-Jul NST
- China wants US to relax AI chip export controls for trade deal Edge Mail NST
- China’s Jul factory-gate prices miss forecast, deflation concerns persist Edge Mail
- Hong Kong growth to hold steady in 2H Star
- Taiwan exceeds full-year trade surplus record with US in 7 months Star
- Japanese household spending rises in Jun, pace slowed by food prices Edge
- Lay-offs at India’s TCS herald AI shake-up of USD283b outsourcing sector Edge Mail
- RBA’s new policy board comes with added unpredictability Yahoo
- Australia set to cut rates, stay cautious on policy outlook Yahoo
- Wealth firms are preparing richest Australians for pension tax fallout Edge
- Nvidia and AMD to pay 15% of China chip sale revenues to US government Yahoo
- US expects USD50b a month in tariff revenues NST
- US inflation to rise as higher tariffs feed through Edge
- US Fed’s Bowman favours 3 interest rate cuts this year Edge
- Fed’s Daly says lower rates needed in coming months as job market slowed Yahoo
- Fed officials tilt dovish as US job market softens Edge
- Unemployment benefit continuing claims hit highest level since Nov 2021 Yahoo
- Banks are defending against private equity poaching of junior bankers Yahoo
- Reeves faces USD68b budget shortfall Star
- Egypt’s annual urban consumer price inflation down to 13.9% in Jul NST