Tag: refinancing

The intensifying spat between the US and China could push refinancing costs sky high for corporates in Asia-Pacific heavily exposed to the dollar, S&P Global Ratings warns.

It’s not just the US Fed that is seeking to increase interest rates – other central banks are poised to follow suit. Corporate treasurers with hedged debt need to respond.

Following a wave of bond defaults, industry regulators turn their attention to improving credit ratings standards.

Interest rates rising? Rivals snapping at your heels? The treasurer at one of the Philippines’ biggest petroleum companies tells CT how he poured oil on a troubled interest rate sea.

More corporates are using an accounting loophole in reverse factoring arrangement to hide their true level of debt, the ratings agency warns.

Higher onshore funding costs – as well as tighter credit conditions – continue to put pressure on Chinese corporates to raise debt outside the country.

China’s X-border transaction curbs are hindering companies that want to pay off debt offshore and increasing their appetite for X-border guarantee financing. But firms must play nice and not step across the line.