Capital markets news | Wed 22 Oct 2025
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Private investment in public equity (PIPE): A public company issues new shares (or convertible securities like bonds or preferred stock) to private investors at a negotiated price, typically below the current market price. Private investment because the buyers are private investors, not the general public. Public equity because the target is a publicly listed company.
Equity
- Maybank underwrites KL Foodie’s ACE Market IPO Edge NST Star
- Farmiera seeks to raise RM29.25m in ACE Market IPO Edge NST
- Solarvest plans RM254m private placement Edge
- Malaysian companies must transform to avoid another lost decade Edge
- Capital A on track to exit PN17 status by year-end Star
- US rate cuts will spur fund inflow, start buying Bursa Malaysia now Edge
- Foreign outflow continues on Bursa at RM962.8m last week Edge
- Indonesia’s Anugrah Neo Energy Materials plans over USD300m IPO NST
- Maynilad prices biggest Philippine IPO since 2021 at top end Edge
- GCash is said to delay record-breaking Philippine IPO to 2H2026 Edge
- Haier weighing Hong Kong IPO of Cosmoplat business Edge
- Billionaire Kakao founder Brian Kim cleared of stock manipulation Edge Mail
- Global banks bet billions on Indian banks amid US credit jitters Star
- Foreign investors pull USD1.71b from Asian markets NST Star
- Asia’s biggest stock exchanges push back against companies hoarding crypto Edge
- BitcoinOS raises USD10m to expand institutional BTCFi capabilities Coindesk
- Open source agentic startup LangChain hits USD1.25b valuation Yahoo
- Limitless Exchange closes USD10m seed round Yahoo
Debt
- Sarawak Petchem’s sukuk AAA(s) rating affirmed RAM
- More transparency on hire purchase loans with Rule of 78 scrapped Edge
- BlackRock executes inaugural Saudi riyal bond deals on Tradeweb Edge
- Treasury 10-year yields may hit 3.75% on oil slide Edge
- Santander lined up to help First Brands before demise Star
- US banks hunting for collateral to back USD20b Argentina bailout Edge NST Star
- Argentina secures USD20b currency pact Star
- Brazil’s Ambipar seeks bankruptcy in latest market jolt Edge
- BOE’s Bailey says First Brands, Tricolor collapses may herald worse to come Edge
- ECB’s Lane flags dollar risk for banks amid tariff turmoil Edge
Digital assets
- BlackRock is pulling bitcoin whales into Wall Street’s orbit Edge Cointelegraph
- Bitcoin treasury companies, whither thence Coindesk
- Arch helps bitcoin holders slash US tax bill with mining investments Coindesk
- Crypto’s decentralised illusion shattered again by another AWS meltdown Coindesk
- US Fed’s Waller pitches skinny master account idea Coindesk
- Coinbase sees TradFi institutions driving crypto derivatives boom Coindesk
- US surging in crypto activity under Trump Coindesk
- Will the crypto crash get worse? These indicators say yes Yahoo
M&A
- Shin Yang buys RM26.6m Kota Kinabalu land from controlling shareholder Edge Star
- Rapid Synergy sells 2 Penang parcels for RM35m to ams OSRAM Edge NST Star
- Magna Prima takeover not fair but reasonable, says independent adviser Edge
- Blackstone and TPG agree to USD18b deal to buy Hologic Edge Yahoo
- CoreWeave CEO stands firm on USD9b Core Scientific offer Coindesk
- Cloud data firm Veeam to buy Securiti AI for USD1.73b Yahoo
- Unilever delays Magnum demerger timeline on US government shutdown Edge
- Warner Bros weighs sale amid interest from several parties Edge
- Netflix has no interest in owning legacy media networks Yahoo
- Coinbase buys investment platform Echo in USD375m deal Edge Yahoo
- Illinois’ HBT makes a USD170.2m deal to stretch footprint to St. Louis Yahoo
- AlphaCore acquires USD1.5b RIA in DC Metro area Yahoo
- Huntington Bancshares completes USD1.9b acquisition of Veritex Yahoo
- HoldCo targets First Interstate for bank revamp Star
- Viatris completes Aculys Pharma acquisition Yahoo
- What’s the deal with the rise of sub-acquisitions? Yahoo
- Iamgold to acquire Quebec-based Northern Superior Resources Yahoo
- Princes Group targets EUR1b war chest for takeovers after London IPO Edge
- French digital payments company Worldline signals more deals to come Edge
- PayPal to take over Carlyle’s stake in German e-commerce firm Shopware Edge
- EQT eyes Coller Capital, HarbourVest for secondaries Star
- 2 Coca-Cola bottlers to combine in USD2.6b deal Edge NST
Other markets
- Danantara faces risks in carbon capture projects Star
- China’s GDP keeps annual growth on track Star
- Goldman steps up Saudi wealth bet to target Middle East’s rich Edge
- IMF says risks to Middle East outlook tilted to downside Edge NST
- US Fed to trim rates twice more this year, 2026 rate path very unclear Edge
- Fed still poised to cut rates, but worries mount over US data vacuum Edge
- OpenAI hires ex-bankers to help cut down grunt work Yahoo
- Canada inflation quickens to 2.4%, core measures heat up Edge
- Asia-Pacific economy to expand 3.8% in 2025 Edge
- Reeves pledges crackdown on UK business rules in push for growth Edge
- UK construction plummets to 11-year low as rising costs bite Edge