CREDIT Suisse Group is paying up to raise billions of US dollars in the US and UK as the troubled lender relies on attractive terms to keep funding plans in place.
EUROZONE government bond prices fell on Thursday (Feb 5), halting a rally earlier in the week on signs that inflation may have peaked in the bloc, with heavy government bond supply adding to pressure on prices.
THE Asia-Pacific region, excluding Japan, recorded a 17 per cent year-on-year drop in investment banking fees to US$28.6 billion in 2022 – the lowest annual total since 2019.
THE cut-off yield for Singapore’s first six-month Treasury bill (T-bill) auction this year closed at 4.2 per cent on Thursday (Jan 5).
STANDARD Chartered’s China unit said it had become the first foreign bank to trade treasury bond futures in the country which is deregulating capital markets.
THE US government has seized — or is in the process of seizing — hundreds of millions of dollars worth of Robinhood Markets shares as part of the fraud case against Sam Bankman-Fried, founder of the failed crypto firm FTX, lawyers said in court on Wednesday (Jan 4).
HONG Kong sold the equivalent of US$5.8 billion of green bonds denominated in three currencies on Wednesday (Jan 4), as debt markets roared back to life amid a global rush of deals.
THE US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is pushing back on Binance.US’s plan to buy bankrupt crypto lender Voyager Digital in a deal valued at about US$1 billion, according to a bankruptcy court filing.
GLOBAL sales of corporate bonds with environmental, social and governance (ESG) targets will rebound this year and top US$460 billion, Barclays said, after the asset class had its first setback in 2022 as higher interest rates weighed on credit markets.
US central bankers do not expect it will be “appropriate” to start cutting interest rates this year with inflation remaining high, according to minutes of the latest Federal Reserve policy meeting released Wednesday (Jan 4).












