Tag: financing

The sustainability linked financing covers greenfield and operational assets across Australia, Hong Kong, Malaysia and Singapore, and involved a consortium of 60 banks. The financing comes after Blackstone and CPPIB's acquisition of the group last year.

The Hong Kong Export Credit Insurance Corporation is seeking collaboration with more finance firms to address funding issues; mainland China, Japan, Asean, the EU and the US are target markets.

UOB will leverage Keppel’s reach to promote its sustainability solutions beyond Singapore.

A collaboration between Vemanti, Finastra and Lendscape will expand the financing solutions on offer to Southeast Asia’s community of SMEs. The launch of a new digital bank is set to follow.

According to the bank, 88% of trade finance transactions are now originated online.

It can be red faces all round when it comes to debt financing without a healthy dose of ESG. Even in cost-sensitive emerging markets sustainable finance is going mainstream.

A $625 million financing structure for PT Halmahera Persada Lygend (PT HPAL), Indonesia’s first high pressure acid leach smelter, will support the country’s ambitions for the electric vehicle (EV) and battery manufacturing.

News that Canadian energy firm Enbridge issued the world’s first corporate bond linked to the Secured Overnight Financing Rate (SOFR) has been greeted as a watershed. Is Asia playing catch up?

Hotel development is not normally the greenest of industries, but Park Hotel Group has sealed Singapore’s largest green loan for a hotel chain.

The global slowdown will always favour those with the scale to sit it out. How SMEs are set to suffer in the coming liquidity drought

*Korea to allow securities firms to raise more funds for corporate financing *ASX opens RMB-denominated securities clearing *HKMA promotes bank liquidity with new ratio

Malaysia has amended its Recognized Market Guidelines to give businesses the option of setting up P2P financing platforms, but only if they meet requirements.