Capital markets news | Tue 10 Feb 2026
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Equity
- Hock Soon Capital’s IPO sees modest 0.36 times oversubscription Edge Star
- Mercury Securities assigns 18% upside target for ACE market-bound Teamstar Edge
- Bankers pushing for A1Health IPO Edge
- BHIC suspended pending material announcement Edge Mail NST Star
- TA Securities bets on 5 ‘dark horses’ to lead small-cap comeback for 2026 Edge
- Driving corporate ‘value-up’ with benchmarks on financial resilience Edge
- Foreign investors remain net buyers on Bursa for fifth straight week Edge Star
- Capital A eyes HK listing, subsidiary spin-offs Star
- UI Boustead REIT begins pre-marketing of Singapore IPO, term sheet shows Edge
- Indonesia to hold follow-up meeting with MSCI this week after market rout Star
- Krakatau Steel sees state fund take charge Star
- Montage shares jump 57% in debut after USD902m Hong Kong listing Edge
- Jennifer Garner’s Once Upon a Farm IPO jumps 40% Yahoo
- Clear Street’s USD1b IPO leads several others scheduled this week Investors
- Mega IPOs loom as Wall Street anticipates breakout year for listings Yahoo
- AI startup Databricks raises USD5b at USD134b valuation Yahoo
Debt
- Maybank, CGC roll out RM1b SME portfolio guarantee scheme Edge NST Star
- SME Corp: RM117m allocated for 8 MSME programmes NST
- Purbaya pushes back against rating warning Star
- China pumping cash to fill USD456b liquidity shortfall Edge Star
- Adani Energy taps MUFG, SMBC-led consortium for transmission project Edge
- Australian AI startup Firmus gets USD10b in Blackstone-led loan Edge
- Treasuries decline on news Chinese banks asked to limit US bonds Edge
- Alphabet issued USD20b in 7-part series of senior unsecured notes Edge Yahoo
- Alphabet plans tech’s first 100-year bond since dot-com era Yahoo
- Investors slash exposure to Britain as leadership battle looms Yahoo
Digital assets
- South Korean watchdog urges tougher crypto rules Edge NST Coindesk
- Crypto investment outflows ease after 3 weeks of heavy selling Cointelegraph
- How market makers likely accelerated bitcoin’s brutal crash to USD60k Coindesk
- Crypto crashes rattle venture capitalists after USD19b haul Edge Yahoo
- Bitcoin shakes off early decline, returns to USD70k Coindesk Yahoo
- US government isn’t poised to sweep in with bitcoin buys Coindesk
- Bitcoin mining difficulty drops by most since 2021 as miners capitulate Coindesk
- Here’s why the quantum threat for bitcoin may be smaller than people fear Coindesk
- Tether’s gold stash tops USD23b as buying outpaces nation states Coindesk Yahoo
- Massive consolidation’ expected across crypto industry Cointelegraph
M&A
- Ann Joo to sell waste management unit as part of operations streamlining Edge Star
- Magma wins shareholder nod to sell 20% stake in Heritage Lane NST
- Sabah buys 20% non-operating interest in oil block from Petronas Edge NST Star
- Kuwaiti fund Asiya Investments puts Brickfields land up for sale Edge
- Advent, FedEx-led consortium buy parcel locker firm InPost in USD9.2b deal Edge
- Transocean to buy Valaris in USD5.8b all-stock offshore drilling merger Yahoo
- Axcelis-Veeco USD4.4b merger receives shareholder approval Yahoo
- Lilly strikes deal for biotech Orna worth up to USD2.4b Edge
- Crypto.com co-founder buys AI.com domain for USD70m NST Coindesk
- Gencom acquires Ritz-Carlton hotel in US Yahoo
- NatWest enters GBP2.7b deal to acquire UK wealth manager Evelyn Partners Yahoo
- DSM-Firmenich to sell animal nutrition unit to CVC in USD2.6b deal Yahoo
- Uber agrees to buy Getir’s delivery business in Türkiye Edge
- Copper Intelligence to acquire DRC’s Butembo copper asset Yahoo
Malaysia
- International reserves up USD1.3b to USD126.9b at end-Jan Edge Mail NST Star
- Banks’ dividend plan may stretch capital position, warns Moody’s Edge Mail
- Industrial output speeds up at end-2025 Edge Star
- Manufacturing sales value hits RM1.97t, grows 4.2% in 2025 Mail Star
- Manufacturing sector to anchor 2026 industrial growth Edge
- 4Q2025 growth expected to beat previous year Mail NST
- Kinergy, Safran sign hydropower virtual power purchase agreement Edge NST Star
- Taiwan’s Chipbond opens RM800m advanced packaging facility in Penang Edge
- Govt disbursed over RM9b to date for Pan Borneo Sabah Phase 1A Edge
- JS-SEZ investment blueprint, master plan to be launched 30 Mar Edge NST
Other markets
- Singapore investment commitments rise in 2025 Edge NST Star
- Singapore says median monthly household income rose 6.8% in 2025 Edge
- Singapore to create 15,700 jobs over 5 years Star
- UAE’s G42 says joining USD1b AI project in Vietnam NST
- Vietnam banks’ profitability enters new expansion phase Star
- Yuan hits 33-month high after regulators’ warning on US Treasury risk Edge Star
- Taiwan Jan exports surge fastest in 16 years on AI demand Edge
- Japan’s real wages down every month in 2025 Edge Star
- Saudis plan revised strategy for USD2t economic agenda Edge
- Australian household spending falls in Dec after 2 strong months Edge
- US consumer inflation, labour expectations improve Edge
- Trump says Fed pick Warsh can get US economy to hit 15% growth Yahoo
- Fed’s Miran says data suggests Americans aren’t shouldering tariff hit Yahoo
- Taiwan says 40% shift of chip capacity to US is ‘impossible’ Star
- Goldman Sachs quietly hands the boring stuff to Claude Al Yahoo
- IMF chief plays down the dollar’s ‘short term variations’ Edge
- Uganda’s central bank holds key lending rate at 9.75% Yahoo