Capital markets news | Wed 19 Nov 2025
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Tokenisation of equity: Tokenisation begins by identifying the equity to be digitised and choosing a structure, either tokens represent actual shares or represent beneficial interests via an SPV or trustee. This determines how ownership, rights, and legal compliance are handled.
Equity
- Perak-based PMW International up marginally on ACE Market debut Edge Star
- Foodie Media’s growth under pressure, Tradeview sees 10% downside Edge
- IOI Properties eyes Malaysia, Singapore REIT listings with USD8b assets NST Star
- Careplus aborts rights issue due to falling share price Edge
- Buyout firm co-led by ex-Alibaba chairman targets USD1b fund Edge
- Baby Shark producer Pinkfong shares soar in South Korea IPO Edge NST Star Yahoo
- Indian edtech Physics Wallah closed up 44% on IPO Yahoo
- Saudi Arabia’s giant urban park planner starts USD1b fund Edge
- No firm is immune if AI bubble bursts, Google CEO tells BBC Edge
- Databricks seeks USD130b valuation Edge
- Microsoft, Nvidia to invest in Anthropic as it commits USD30b to Azure Edge
- Obex raises USD37m to build RWA-backed yield-generating stablecoins Coindesk
- Faire begins employee share sale at USD5b value Star
Debt
- Toyota Capital’s guaranteed debt facilities AAA(s) rating affirmed RAM
- PKPP’s RM650m sukuk AA3(s) rating affirmed RAM
- Ideal Water Resources’ Tranche 2 sukuk upgraded to AA1 RAM
- Malaysia to champion Islamic fintech, climate-oriented sukuk by 2040 Edge NST
- Banking sector must manage growing pressures Edge
- 12,645 Indian entrepreneurs benefit from Kuskop financing Edge
- Malaysia’s external debt risk manageable Edge
- Hong Kong’s New World to reduce USD1.3b of debt after early bond swap Edge
- Hong Kong property concerns deepen among bankers and regulators Edge
- US loans Constellation USD1b for Three Mile Island reactor reboot Yahoo
- US is the biggest recipient of Chinese loans Edge NST
- Republic gets USD100m zero-interest convertible loan to buy ETH Cointelegraph
- Ecuador bonds slide after referendum defeat Star
- Europe’s banks face unprecedentedly high risk of shocks Edge
Digital assets
- UBS, Ant test tokenised deposits for real-time cross-border payments Cointelegraph
- Bitcoin drops below USD90k in sign of souring mood Edge NST Star
- Great bitcoin crash of 2025 has it lagging bonds, gold and more Yahoo
- Bitcoin backwardation returns, pattern that often marks market bottoms Coindesk
- Bitcoin sell-off likely complete, rally into year-end still in play Coindesk
- Bitcoin hashprice falls to 5-year low Coindesk
- Robinhood’s 3-phase tokenisation for permissionless financial ecosystem Coindesk
- Société Générale’s SG-FORGE issues first tokenised bond in US Coindesk
- US regulator OCC clarifies how banks can handle network gas fees Coindesk
- Figment, OpenTrade debut Solana-based stablecoin with 15% APR Cointelegraph
- Canada approves budget that advances policy for stablecoins Coindesk
- Cloudflare outage sends shockwaves, renewing push for DePIN Coindesk
M&A
- MUI shareholders approve sale of Corus Hotel to Mah Sing for RM260m NST Star
- SCIB to sell concrete manufacturing arm to YTL Cement for RM113m NST Star
- IGB buys Perak’s Movie Animation Park Studios for RM43.65m Edge Mail Star
- Critical Holdings acquires land in Penang for RM11.5m Star
- Ecobuilt sells Kapar land for RM5.74m to reduce debt Star
- US chip giant GlobalFoundries buys Singapore’s Advanced Micro Foundry Star
- Grant Thornton said to study options for USD2b India unit Edge
- Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance buys 18% of MassMutual’s Barings for USD1.4b Yahoo
- Topgolf sold to private equity firm for USD1.1b Yahoo
- Amphenol closes USD1b acquisition of Trexon Yahoo
- Almonty starts operations in US with Montana tungsten project acquisition Yahoo
- Rail merger could raise prices, hurt US ability to compete Yahoo
- Meta wins FTC antitrust suit, will keep Instagram and WhatsApp Yahoo
- Akzo Nobel to acquire Axalta in USD9.2b paint deal Edge
Other markets
- China’s youth jobless rate drops to 17.3% in Oct Edge
- Japan’s central bank governor signals it remains on rate hike path Edge
- US jobless claims totalled 232k in week ended 18 Oct Edge Yahoo
- US companies shed jobs as Oct drew to a close Edge
- US factory orders rebound as expected in Aug Edge
- US faces winter blackout risks from data centres’ power needs Yahoo