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Retail Asia30/06/2021

HSBC has reportedly lost four bankers in its debt capital markets team covering Chinese state-owned enterprises as the business faces pressure from the Huawei incident and stressed relations with the U.K. Managing directors John Hai and Jiang Song have left HSBC in recent weeks, according to a report citing unnamed sources, with plans to join competing firms after more […]

Retail Asia28/06/2021

E-commerce platform Tiki has raised VND1 trillion (nearly $43.5 million) over the last three months by issuing corporate bonds. Issued from 16 March to June 13, the bonds are non-convertible with a fixed interest rate of 13 percent per annum, one of the highest rates in the local market. Over 97 percent of Tiki bonds’ […]

Retail Asia17/06/2021

The bank has priced S$600 million of perpetual capital securities at a fixed coupon rate of 2.55 percent – the lowest for benchmark perpetual securities for banks in Singapore. UOB is piloting the digital issuance of its latest bond offering on exchange-operated digital asset issuance platform Marketnode, the bank said in an announcement on Wednesday. The non-call […]

Retail Asia16/01/2020

DBS Bank (China) announced that it received a Bond Settlement Agent license in the China Interbank Bond Market, making it the first and only Singapore bank to be granted such a license. DBS Bank (China) has received a Bond Settlement Agent license from the People’s Bank of China to act as a bond settlement agent […]

Retail Asia15/07/2019

Further extending its deep connection with the James Bond franchise, Aston Martin has recently revealed the carmaker’s new mid-engined hypercar Valhalla will be a part of the upcoming 25th Bond movie, staring actor Daniel Craig. In addition to the recently unveiled Aston Martin Valhalla, the new 007 movie will also feature the classic Series II […]

Retail Asia12/06/2019

The Aston Martin DBS Superleggera is set to become the newest James Bond-inspired car, thanks to the most recent collaboration between Aston Martin and EON Productions. To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the James Bond film, On Her Majesty’s Secret Service, 50 ‘On Her Majesty’s Secret Service’ DBS Superleggera special edition cars will be sold. Painted […]

Retail Asia13/05/2019

State-owned bank offers green Silk Road bond in three currencies one week after a similar exercise by rival Bank of China. Acting through its Singapore branch, the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC), the world’s biggest bank by assets, has issued its first green bond offering in three currencies totalling $2.2 billion equivalent, Reuters reported […]

Retail Asia08/02/2019

India’s central bank unexpectedly lowered interest rates and, as anticipated, shifted its stance to “neutral” from “calibrated tightening” to boost a slowing economy after a sharp fall in the inflation rate. The monetary policy committee (MPC) of the Reserve Bank of India cut the repo rate by 25 basis points to 6.25%, as predicted by […]

Retail Asia13/11/2018

State-owned mining holding company Indonesia Asahan Aluminium, better known as Inalum, sold bonds worth $4 billion in its first-ever US dollar bond deal on Thursday to fund the acquisition of a majority stake in the Grasberg copper mine in Papua. The deal came amid choppy global markets, rocked by trade concerns and slowing economic growth in […]

Retail Asia25/03/2017

The Philippines plans to sell at least 30 billion pesos ($596 million) worth of three-year retail treasury bonds to provide small investors with safe investment options, the Bureau of Treasury said on Thursday. It would be the second retail bond issue under President Rodrigo Duterte’s nine-month-old government, which in September 2016 raised as much as […]

Retail Asia19/08/2015

For a long time, Hong Kong people and corporates enjoyed a free ride on the renminbi as the Chinese currency promised steady appreciation and high returns. But the steep devaluation this week has spoilt the party for good, and everyone — be it multinational corporations operating out of IFC 2 or housewives in Ngau Tou […]

Retail Asia30/07/2015

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Singapore’s plan to launch a savings bond to encourage long-term retail savings is unsettling domestic banks and economists who fear this bond will push interest rates up and suck cash out from an already anaemic economy. The new bond, which will begin selling in October, will have a term of 10 years. It will offer […]

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China Bond Bankers Flee HSBC

Tiki raises $43.5 mln via corporate bonds

UOB Taps Digital Platform for Bond Issuance

DBS Obtains Bond Settlement Agent License in China

Aston Martin Valhalla To Be Featured In The Upcoming 25th James Bond Movie

Aston Martin Celebrates 50 Years Of James Bond Movie

ICBC Singapore Issues Bank’s First Green Bond

India central bank makes surprise interest rate cut

Indonesia to Sell $4b in Bonds to Fund Freeport Purchase

Philippines gov’t to sell $596M retail treasury bonds

Hongkongers must wake up to new yuan reality

Singapore Savings Bonds: Good intent, bad timing, say analysts