Capital markets executive summary | Wed 15 Nov 2023

Capital markets executive summary | Wed 15 Nov 2023 Government to help introduce financing for energy efficiency projects The Economy Minister sees a need to create an overall ecosystem for green projects beyond solar and hydrogen that will complement the National Energy Transition Roadmap (NETR). The government is working with the banking and financial industry…

Capital markets executive summary | Tue 14 Nov 2023

Capital markets executive summary | Tue 14 Nov 2023 LTAT makes takeover offer for Boustead Plantation The Armed Forces Fund Board (LTAT) signed an unconditional share sale agreement with Boustead Holdings Bhd to acquire 739.20m Boustead Plantation (BPlant) shares or 33%, which would increase LTAT’s share of BPlant from 237.21m shares or 10.59% to 976.41m…

Capital markets executive summary | Fri 10 Nov 2023

Capital markets executive summary | Fri 10 Nov 2023 Business management consultancy ex-director charged for not possessing CMSRL 33-year-old Muhammad Fadzli Jamaludin, a former director of Kyaputen Sdn Bhd, was charged at the Kuala Lumpur Sessions Court with 3 counts of unlicensed fund management at 1 venue in Taman Muzaffar Heights, Ayer Keroh, Melaka and…

Capital markets executive summary | Wed 8 Nov 2023

Capital markets executive summary | Wed 8 Nov 2023 Columbia Asia is frontrunner for Ramsay Sime Darby Health Care The Southeast Asian healthcare firm, backed by alternative asset company TPG, could sign a deal as early as this week to buy the Malaysia-based private hospitals operator for USD1.5b. The acquisition will be Southeast Asia’s largest…

Capital markets executive summary | Tue 7 Nov 2023

Capital markets executive summary | Tue 7 Nov 2023 Surian Creation sues Euro Holdings for exploiting it to get banking facilities The furniture maker, 3 of its subsidiaries and its managing director Datuk Seri Lim Teck Boon are being sued for allegedly using another company to obtain banking facilities. Surian Creation Sdn Bhd filed the…

Capital markets executive summary | Mon 6 Nov 2023

Capital markets executive summary | Mon 6 Nov 2023 U Mobile converts RM1.4b banking facility into sustainability-linked financing The conversion was done by CIMB as sustainability structuring agent, sustainability lead arranger and joint lender with UOB Malaysia. U Mobile is entitled to receive rebates on its interest payments after achieving its sustainability performance targets (SPT)….

Capital markets executive summary | Fri 3 Nov 2023

Capital markets executive summary | Fri 3 Nov 2023 Plytec IPO oversubscribed 6.72 times The construction engineering solutions provider received 3,451 applications for 233.87m shares for the public offering of 30.3m new shares. There were 1,550 applications for 89.31m shares for the bumiputra portion or 4.89 times oversubscribed. The non-bumiputra portion received 1,901 applications for…

Capital markets executive summary | Thu 2 Nov 2023

Capital markets executive summary | Thu 2 Nov 2023 BPMB extends RM1b financing to highway concessionaire Lekas Bank Pembangunan Malaysia Berhad (BPMB) granted RM1b tawarruq asset financing facilities to Lebuhraya Kajang-Seremban Sdn Bhd (Lekas) in order to restructure the company’s debt obligations to ensure the highway remains sustainable and affordable to travellers. The facility is…

Capital markets executive summary | Wed 1 Nov 2023

Capital markets executive summary | Wed 1 Nov 2023 CIMB eyes Indonesia’s Bank Commonwealth Malaysia’s number 2 bank CIMB and Japanese finance company J Trust are competing to buy PT Bank Commonwealth, a 99% subsidiary of Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA), in a deal that could value the bank at USD400-USD500m. Bank Commonwealth focuses on…