Capital markets news | Mon 10 Nov 2025
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Special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) in Malaysia: Unlike Malaysia, SPACs in the US are thriving because (1) The US SEC adopted a market-driven approach instead of seeking to overly-protect investors (2) No SEC approval is needed for acquisitions (3) time limit extensions for acquisitions are common and (4) a simple shareholder majority is needed for acquisitions with dissenters allowed to redeem.
Equity
- UMS Integration proposes 1-for-4 bonus issue Edge
- Ho Hup submits annual report, no share suspension today Edge Star
- Pertama Digital confident of finalising regularisation plan Edge NST
- PN17 – safeguard or straitjacket? Star
- Bursa fines former Scanwolf director RM30k for faking Datuk title Edge NST Star
- Bursa, regulators cooperate to reduce risk of foreign fund sell-offs Star
- MOF put option could see telcos fork out nearly RM1b for DNB stake Edge
- GenAI Fund allocates USD6m for Asean AI start-ups Edge
- JP Morgan on EM equities surge: Strongest year since pandemic NST
- Ledger eyes New York listing as revenue hits triple-digit millions Cointelegraph
Debt
- Alliance Bank secures RM400m from capital market Star
- Guan Chong’s sukuk rating outlook revised to stable MARC
- Malaysian bond market for data-centre financing still in its infancy Edge Star
- Fed rate cuts, steady economic growth to fuel Malaysia’s sukuk, bond market Edge
- Sedania disburses nearly RM2b in GoHalal financing for gig economy Edge NST
- Call for household debt to remain manageable Star
- PGB, UOB ink 5-year collaboration to drive green financing for JS-SEZ Edge Star
- Westports, Maybank eye China’s growing halal market worth USD217b Edge Star
- KKR’s Global Atlantic to fund Chandra Asri’s USD1b Esso buy Edge
- OpenAI discussed govt loan guarantees for chip plants, not data centres NST
- ECB’s Sleijpen warns eurobonds only lead to higher debt Edge
- China to sell up to EUR4b of sovereign bonds in Luxembourg Edge
- IMF’s proposed Senegal debt restructure a disgrace Edge
Digital assets
- Exploring asset tokenisation Star
- Japan govt to support big banks’ project to issue stablecoins Edge
- The great Korean pivot: From memecoins to machine chips Coindesk
- Pakistan mulls rupee-backed stablecoin Cointelegraph
- Crypto up as Trump announces USD2k tariff dividend Coindesk Cointelegraph
- US regulator pushing toward crypto spot trading Coindesk
- US Fed’s Miran says policy needs to adjust to stablecoin boom Coindesk
- Wall Street is bought in on crypto’s upside potential, but not its tech Coindesk
- Spain’s civil guard arrests alleged leader of EUR260m ponzi scheme Coindesk
M&A
- IJM, Sunway deny merger speculation Star
- Apex Healthcare receives takeover offer at RM2.64 per share Edge NST Star
- Oriental to buy three Malaysian hotels from Loh family in RM411m deal Edge Star
- Rapid Synergy sells Teluk Intan mall to Lotuss for RM41m Edge Star
- Singtel is in ongoing discussions in relation to ST Telemedia’s GDC Edge
- CapitaLand said to mull merging non-China assets with Mapletree Edge
- Indonesia discussing plan for merger of Grab and GoTo Edge
- Sweden’s EQT shells out USD930m for a slice of South Korea’s Douzone Bizon NST
- Danantara said to lodge USD1b offer for land at Mecca site Edge
- Billionaire Ross’ firm strikes deal to buy West Palm Beach hotel Edge
- Why breakups are in vogue for restaurant chains and Big Food Yahoo
- Pfizer sweetens offer for Metsera in bidding war against Novo Edge NST
Malaysian
- MARC Ratings expects 25 basis point OPR cut next year NST
- International reserves at USD123.8b as at 31 Oct Edge NST Star
- RHB IB maintains 3Q GDP growth estimate at 5.2% Star
- Industrial output expands faster than expected in Sep Edge Star
- Analysts expect industrial recovery to persist amid tariff clarity Edge
- E-commerce crime cases up 97%, losses reach RM110m Edge
- Trade unpacked series Part 3: US-Malaysia agreement RAM
- Ringgit to touch 4.18 by year end, strengthen further to 4.10 by end-2026 Edge
Other markets
- Singapore’s DBS girds for AI as tellers morph into bankers Edge
- Indonesia to invest USD22b in agricultural processing Edge NST
- Maybank, Cambodia renew MOU for capital market cooperation NST
- China consumer prices unexpectedly rise on holiday demand Edge Yahoo
- Chinese exports unexpectedly slump first time since Feb Edge Star
- Japan’s Takaichi shifts economic policy with looser budget goal Edge
- Japan to seek boosting investment with upcoming economic stimulus NST
- Goldman names record number of MDs in Asia wealth unit Edge
- Data fog intensifying for Fed as shutdown delays US inflation numbers Yahoo
- Bessent says Trump’s USD2k dividend may come via tax cuts Yahoo
- US consumer sentiment declines to a more than 3-year low Edge
- US weekly jobless claims increase moderately NST
- US employment report will not be published as govt shuts down Edge Mail
- Private data says hiring has dramatically slowed Yahoo
- Hassett says US 4Q GDP could be negative if shutdown drags on Yahoo
- US to block Nvidia’s sale of scaled-down AI chips to China Edge NST