Capital markets news | Thu 30 Apr 2026
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Private credit
Although private credit is seen as a conservative income strategy, many deals include equity‑like features such as warrants, equity kickers, or profit‑sharing. These structures blur the line between debt and equity, and in some cases resemble leveraged‑buyout economics, where lenders share in a company’s upside. This boosts potential returns but also ties lender performance more directly to the borrower’s success.
Debt
- Kinabalu Capital’s Issue 3 ratings affirmed MARC
- Khazanah prices RM100m tokenised sukuk out of RM20b programme Edge Star
- CIMB structures Khazanah’s tokenised sukuk NST Star
- Maybank acts as primary subscriber for Khazanah’s tokenised sukuk NST Star
- Maybank allocates RM29.41b for social impact in FY2025 Edge Star
- War tensions unlikely to shift Islamic finance flows to Malaysia in big way Edge
- RHB, Petronas partner on sustainable vendor financing Edge Star
- Banks urges MSMEs affected by Iran conflict to engage for support NST Star
- Indonesia telco pivots to private debt after public bond rethink Edge
- Korea ramps up private credit scrutiny to gauge vulnerabilities Edge
- US home-purchase applications jump, driven lower financing costs Edge
- UK borrowing costs hit highest since 1998 Yahoo
- Deutsche Bank flags commercial property as risk after hit Edge
Commodities
- Trump tells aides to prep for lengthy Hormuz blockade Edge NST Yahoo
- Shell CEO: Blockade may mean energy shortages last into 2027 Star
- Oil price rises above USD120 after reports of ‘extended’ Iran blockade Yahoo
- Hormuz ship traffic plunges over 95% amid US-Israel-Iran war: UN NST
- Oil traders lawyer up as Hormuz disruptions trigger billions of dollars in disputes Edge
- What is OPEC+ and how does it affect oil prices? NST
- UAE exit blindsides Opec and threatens to shake its grip on oil Star
- UAE’s USD150b conflict with Saudi Arabia that will reshape energy markets Mail
- US gas prices surge to over USD4.22 a gallon, the highest in 4 years Yahoo
- Goldman says UAE’s exit from OPEC raises medium-term oil supply upside risk Yahoo
- Barclays sees faster oil supply growth from UAE after its exit from Opec Edge
- Central banks ‘scoop up a load’ of gold in bumpy first quarter Edge
Digital assets
- Bitcoin recovery stalls after Fed holds interest rates Cointelegraph
- Most crypto investors believe bitcoin is undervalued Cointelegraph
- Most prediction market traders are losing money while bots rack up gains Edge
- Tech giant Meta starts paying some creators in stablecoin with Stripe’s support Coindesk
- Visa expands stablecoin settlement network as volume hits USD7b run rate Coindesk
- JPMorgan’s crypto head believes tokenisation is only half the battle Coindesk
- Mythos forces crypto industry to rethink security practices Coindesk
- Wall Street is launching prediction market ETFs for US elections Coindesk
Malaysia
- Short-term interbank rates end steady following BNM operations NST
- PNB tipped for leadership change, Abdul Rahman ‘set’ to leave NST
- Inflation eases to 1.4% in 2025 as ringgit’s strength, BUDI95 help Mail NST Star
- BNM fines Zurich RM1.56m over breaches in sanctions screening Edge NST Star
- Malaysia has no plans for now to re-submit 2026 budget to parliament Star
- Malaysians begin earning surplus income from age 29, peak at 44 – DOSM Edge NST
- Ex-M Jets director says Victor Chin had real authority in collapsed M Jets JV Edge
Other markets
- eFishery founder gets nine-year jail term in USD300m case Edge
- Thai central bank holds key rate, forecasts slower growth and higher inflation Edge Star
- Vietnam must rethink FDI strategy in AI era, says analyst Star
- China approves higher May fuel exports though down from a year ago Edge
- US threatens to sanction banks that help China buy Iran oil Edge
- Family office for USD12b Tetra Pak fortune exits Hong Kong Edge
- Goldman Sachs bars Hong Kong bankers from using Anthropic AI Edge
- Hong Kong has widest trade deficit since 1952 in echo of AI boom Edge
- India warns of demand hit to economy after Iran war boosts costs Edge
- Australia inflation jumps with worse to come, rate hike looms Edge
- Fed leaves rates unchanged at Jerome Powell’s final meeting as chairman Coindesk Yahoo
- Fed Chair says rising gas prices could hit consumer wallets, economic growth Yahoo
- For out-of-work Americans, it doesn’t feel like a good labour market Yahoo
- Jerome Powell will stay on as governor after term amid legal pressure Coindesk Yahoo
- Pentagon budget chief says Iran war has cost USD25b so far Edge
- US housing starts surge to highest level since Dec 2024 Edge
- US core capital goods orders surge by most since 2020 Edge
- US goods trade deficit widens to USD87.9b in Mar as imports rise sharply Edge
- White House drafts guidance to bypass Anthropic’s risk flag for new AI models Edge
- German inflation up less than expected as ECB considers war response Edge