Capital markets news | Thu 16 Oct 2025
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Budget 2026: Entrepreneurial support is scaling up. Loan facilities and guarantees will rise to RM50 billion next year from RM40 billion plus microloans expansions and incentives for export-oriented mid-tier electrical and electronics businesses.
Equity
- Insights Analytics’ ACE Market IPO oversubscribed 53.62 times Edge Star
- Jewellery retailer Goldfinch plans ACE Market IPO Edge
- Controlled environment firm Sum Technology eyes ACE Market IPO Edge Star
- Bakery chain RT Pastry files for ACE Market IPO Edge Star
- Recycling company Unioleo to list on ACE Market Star
- Globetronics plans 1-for-2 bonus warrants Edge
- SC, Teraju sign pact to help Bumiputera businesses access capital markets Edge
- Mr DIY’s Thailand IPO to raise over RM730m Edge Star
- Singapore’s GIC seeks redemption from Jefferies’ Point Bonita Edge
- Indonesia plans looser foreign investment rules for mutual funds Edge
- Taiwan’s Cathay Life to mandate billions to asset management arm Edge
- Coinbase backs India’s CoinDCX at USD2.45b valuation Edge
- Beta Technologies aims for USD7.22b valuation in US IPO Yahoo
- Japan’s Rakuten weighing US IPO of credit card business Edge Yahoo
- ETF inflows smash USD1t mark in fastest run on record Edge
- Global investors are pouring more money into climate tech Edge
Debt
- Bank of China’s AAA rating affirmed RAM
- Sunway Iskandar’s sustainable finance framework assigned Gold MARC NST
- Malaysia’s public debt, borrowing costs key fiscal metrics to be watched Edge
- World Bank, ADB back Asean cross-border power grid project Edge Star
- Banks and private credit clash after Dimon’s cockroach barb Edge Yahoo
- Bally’s faces ire of lenders on debt plan involving Chicago facility Edge
- Global public debt set to top post-WWII levels by 2029 Edge
Digital assets
- Plans to tokenise real estate with World Liberty Financial confirmed Coindesk
- Backpack expands to SEC-registered tokenised stocks Coindesk
- SoloTex set to bring tokenised stocks to US retail traders Coindesk
- Bitcoin treasury companies should lean into the Lightning Network Coindesk
- Stablecoin boom nears USD300b as new platforms push market Coindesk
- Paxos accidentally mints USD300t PYUSD before burning it Cointelegraph
- Crypto maturity demands systematic discipline over speculation Cointelegraph
- Crypto bank Erebor approved for conditional federal bank charter Coindesk
- The fortunes of tomorrow will be built on compute power Coindesk
M&A
- German footwear company Birkenstock snaps up Australian distributor Yahoo
- Forrestania announces conditional scrip takeover bid for Kula Gold Yahoo
- Biotech fund beating 92% of peers sees more M&A deals to come Edge
- BlackRock, Nvidia-backed group strikes USD40b AI data centre deal Edge Yahoo
- Captrust acquires USD3.1b New York RIA Yahoo
- First Horizon keeps options open amid M&A uptick Yahoo
- BioCryst to buy Astria Therapeutics for USD700m in enterprise value Yahoo
- Naver-Dunamu crypto mega-company could be worth USD2.1b a year Yahoo
- S&P Global buying data and analytics firm With Intelligence for USD1.8b Yahoo
- Rimac founder says he is in talks with Porsche on Bugatti buyout Edge
- Foxconn bid for stake in unit of Germany’s ZF Group stalls Star
- Altice France rejects joint bid for SFR from French telecoms operators Yahoo
- BBVA’s takeover bid secures only 2.8% acceptance from Sabadell shareholders Yahoo
Malaysian
- Possible OPR cut in 2026 amid tame inflation and moderate growth Edge
- Bursa reprimands TXCD, fines ex-directors Edge NST Star
- Ringgit to hit below 4.0 to the dollar by mid-2026 Edge NST Star
- GDP growth seen at 4.2% in 3Q amid steady labour market NST
- IMF forecasts GDP growth of 4.5% in 2025, 4% in 2026 Edge Star
- Fitch projects economy to expand 4% in 2026 NST
- SST revenue surpasses full-year GST collections NST
- Fiscal deficit may narrow below 3.8% target NST
- CEO confidence stabilises with cautious optimism for future growth Edge
- US-Malaysia reciprocal agreement to be signed next week seen as fair NST Star
- New measures to accelerate Johor-Singapore SEZ as RM19b pours in NST
- Johor-Singapore SEZ pulls in RM37b investments in 1H2025 NST
- TNB finalising hydropower deal from Sarawak to the peninsula Star
Other markets
- Indonesia reopens carbon market to foreign buyers with new rules Edge
- Indonesia’s labour union demands up to 10% rise in minimum wages Star
- Poor planning could strand Asean clean energy investments Edge
- China deflation eased in Sep but price declines linger Edge Mail NST Star
- Should China support investment or consumption Mail
- ByteDance’s Douyin Pay investigated for alleged rule breach Edge
- IMF urges Bank of Japan to move very gradually with rate hikes Yahoo
- Australia’s central bank sees signs of financial conditions loosening Yahoo
- Shutdown is costing US economy USD15b a day Edge
- Miran says trade uncertainty makes Fed rate cuts more urgent Edge
- Powell signals another cut as weak hiring pressures unemployment Edge Star
- Credit Suisse loses USD440m UK lawsuit against SoftBank over Greensill losses Edge
- Swiss voters likely to reject proposed tax of 50% on super rich Edge
- Retail pain in Europe reaches 2009 levels Edge
- Kremlin rejects Trump’s assertion that BRICS targets the dollar Edge
- Disaster insured losses top USD100b for sixth year in a row Edge
- Global markets brace for fallout from US government shutdown Mail