Capital markets news | Mon 19 Oct 2026
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Malaysian venture capital (VC)
Jelawang Capital is Malaysia’s national venture-capital fund-of-funds, established by Khazanah Nasional on 28 October 2024. Rather than investing directly in startups, it commits capital to selected VC fund managers, which then invest in high-growth companies. It was created through the consolidation of Malaysia Venture Capital Management (Mavcap) and Penjana Kapital, giving Malaysia a more unified national VC platform.
Equity
- EGH International stumbles in ACE Market debut Edge Reserve NST Star
- Cape EMS proposes RM50m RCPS issuance Edge NST Star
- Genting’s debt, equity divide Star
- MSCI prepares to expel Indonesia from global indices Edge NST Reuters
- Indonesian stocks sink most since 1998 on MSCI downgrade warning Edge
- China moves to prop up stock market with selling curbs, buybacks Edge
- China AI supply-chain IPOs hold firm despite valuation pullback Reuters
- Asian investors turn to hedge funds Star
- Anthropic to shift some shares into new public good fund Yahoo Reuters
- MSCI approves rules that could eject Strategy, Metaplanet from indexes Desk Telegraph
- Tether backs AIsa as strategic investor, completing seed extension round Telegraph
- CoreWeave unravels Edge Reuters
- Partners Group said to cut jobs in private equity unit Edge
Debt
- MNRB Holdings issues RM250m commercial papers Star
- Amanat Lebuhraya Rakyat’s AAA rating affirmed MARC NST Star
- Perak’s sub-sovereign AA+ rating affirmed MARC
- Zetrix AI’s rating downgraded; MARCWatch Negative maintained MARC NST
- Zetrix AI acknowledges potential breach of sukuk covenant Edge Reserve NST Star
- Zetrix on the hook for RM2.16b as sukuk holders sound alarm bell Edge Reserve
- Malaysia’s data centre, GPU funding to exceed bank lending limits in 3 years Star
- Selangor expands contractor financing, brings state services onto NINE Reserve
- Emerging market bonds resilient Star
- Asian bonds record biggest monthly foreign outflow since Mar 2020 Edge Star
- Anthropic offers Blackstone double-digit yield in chip-financing deal Reuters
- CoreWeave bonds headed for steep weekly losses as AI borrowing concerns mount Edge
- CoreWeave bond rout tests market’s math on AI buildout Reuters
- CoreWeave’s debt stress tests private credit’s AI financing boom Reuters
- Fresh test for US bond market Star
- Axe for 20-year bonds? Star
- US interest costs hit record USD1t, risking debt snowball Yahoo
- US regional banks signal resilient economy as lending holds firm Reuters
- Data centres may benefit from massive rural utility loan Reuters
- Hedge funds’ role comes into focus following European bonds turmoil Reuters
Digital assets
- Chinese suspect in USD75m international crime network arrested in Bangkok Telegraph
- Stablecoin issuer Circle to push into 40 new markets, CEO says Edge Desk Reuters
- Stablecoin remittances cost 84% less than traditional transfers Telegraph
- SEC tokenised stock framework faces pushback with objections to OKX-ICE listing Desk
- Goldman, Wells Fargo, Morgan Stanley see tokenisation as a growth play, not a threat Desk
- Citrini sees a tokenisation boom. The harder question is who profits Desk
- Crypto audits give investors false sense of security as 3Q hacks cost USD1.18b Desk
- OpenAI agent ran out of Ethereum funds, took from wallet it did not own Desk Telegraph
- Lagarde says euro-area economy is resilient, digital euro under development Telegraph
- Deutsche Bank prepares German crypto custody launch, eyes Asia Telegraph
- Latvia eyes crypto tax payments in 2027 as parliament overhauls crypto taxation Desk
- Banks could slow stablecoin growth by paying savers more, BIS paper finds Desk
M&A
- RHB Bank seeks more time to conclude insurance merger with Tokio Marine Edge NST Star
- Citaglobal’s share buy-back could trigger mandatory offer by Norza Reserve
- Land 33 clarifies heritage status, tenancy terms for RM32m Penang property buy Reserve
- Public Financial’s impairment trims net assets, earnings by 4 sen Edge Reserve NST Star
- IOI Properties board yet to deliberate on potential Singapore acquisitions Edge
- AP Moller Capital to buy Singapore port operator Portek Edge
- Sumitomo Life CEO targets acquisitions in Southeast Asia, US Edge
- SoftBank weighs USD18b acquisition of Allied Universal Reuters
- Japan’s Daiichi Life unit tables offer to take over Australia’s Challenger Reuters
- Polygon sees Coinme acquisition as entry to payments sector dominated by Visa, Stripe Desk
- Shell agrees sale of French mobility unit to DCC Energy Edge
Malaysia
- BNM keeps Maybank, CIMB and Public on systemically important banks list Edge Star
- EPF’s i-Emas monthly payouts could help retirees avoid burning through savings Mail
- UBB Amanah defers Oct trust payouts amid ‘temporary liquidity constraints’ Edge
- Translating strategy into execution Star
- Economy outperforms with 5.3% expansion in 3Q Edge Reserve Mail NST Star
- Robust growth gives BNM strong footing to confront inflation risks, economists say Edge
- Malaysia on track to exceed 2026 GDP growth forecast — Economists NST Star
- Semiconductor exports surge 82.4% in first 8 months of 2026 NST
- Budget 2027 puts Malaysia’s investment pipeline to the capability test Edge
- Malaysia data centre market projected to grow 33% CAGR from 2025-2030 Star
- Data centres face power test Star
- CRESS charges fixed at 14 sen/kWh for developers, 4 sen for green consumers Edge
- FashionValet received investment of almost RM40m from Khazanah, PNB Edge
Other markets
- Singapore exports rise 68.4% in Sep NST Star
- Vietnam signs free-trade pact with European countries including Edge Mail NST
- China’s 3Q GDP growth set to pick up as exports power ahead Reuters
- China’s export boom has a hidden bill; Asean is already paying Edge
- China’s plan to make yuan a global currency enters faster phase Edge NST
- China’s payback for late stimulus looms with sub-4.5% growth Edge
- Ueda ‘can’t tolerate’ underlying inflation further over 2% Edge Reuters
- India faces tough challenge to stem outflows Star
- US-India trade deal was down to the ‘last 1%’. Why is it still stuck? Mail
- Fed’s Warsh sees US economic tailwinds, mum on rate-path view Edge Star Reuters
- US import prices increase more than expected in Sep Edge
- US manufacturing output rises in Sep Edge Reuters
- US annual budget gap hits nearly USD2t, largest in 5 years Reuters
- AI investment boom may be papering over US economic cracks Edge
- Taiwan to fund USD4b Texas industrial complex for AI, Nvidia partners Edge
- Claude cracks a 25-year NSA number mystery Desk
- Trump’s policies raised costs for all but the top 1%, report says Yahoo
- Progress toward a US-Mexico tariff deal has stalled Reuters
- Venezuela expects USD76b in oil investment over 5 years, acting president says Edge
- BOE’s Bailey sees little evidence of second-round inflation Edge
- UK inflation can seal the deal on BOE’s Nov rate hike Edge
- UK said to raise taxes on banks in budget this month Edge
- Central bankers eye higher rates as AI boom fuels scramble for cash Reuters
- IMF says AI slowdown could knock 0.4% off global GDP by 2028 Mail
- IMF urges govts to rein in costly subsidies as debt and spending pressures mount Mail
- IMF / World Bank meetings leave developing countries with more questions Reuters
- Why oil prices could be poised for a ‘super spike’: analyst Yahoo
- The USD40-a-barrel cost most oil consumers never see Yahoo