EXS Capital has found a niche in Asia’s booming new economy – as a landlord of the cloud. The fund has raised $200m from Bain Capital Credit to buy data centres.
Issuers are coming to terms with the alien concept of a new issue premium (NIP) as Asian bond markets suffer a difficult start to the year. Where will they go from here?
Investors are looking on with a degree of concern as private equity managers cut deals at soaring valuations.
Asia’s public coffers can’t pay for all the region’s infrastructure needs. Building it green may fill the investment gap and alleviate global warming.
As 2017 edges to a close, FinanceAsia takes a look at how Asia ECM performed this year and what to expect in the next 12 months.
The Pure Group’s new owners FountainVest Partners and Ontario Teachers' expect the firm to capitalise on China’s growing health consciousness.
Chinese consumers’ growing emphasis on wellness and lifestyle is creating a wave of new investment opportunities, say luxury brand executives.
It has been a fairly quiet year so far, but Asian equity capital markets are stirring back to life, as a number of jumbo IPOs and sought-after tech deals loom into view.
Money waiting to be deployed is weighing on investors’ returns and pushing up buyout valuations. In response KKR’s is switching gear to put money to work faster.
Around $26 trillion of infrastructure investment is needed in Asia over the next 15 years. There is one obvious place to look.
Kate Richdale and Andrea Vella talk about how they are reshaping the firm, the thinking behind recent layoffs and their top insights into 2017 corporate finance trends.
After impressing in Australia, James Arnold has been put in charge of the US bank’s Asia Pacific bond syndicate desk.
FWD’s CEO Huynh Thanh Phong talks about why he is buying the Japanese insurer from AIG and how it fits into the insurance platform he is building across Asia.
Donald Trump’s against-the-odds triumph in the US presidential election looks set to bring Asia’s bond market grinding to a halt as investors take a step back and funding costs rise.
Job cuts imminent at the US investment bank amid a tough year in Asia's emerging markets. Other banks may follow suit as fierce competition from Chinese brokers bites.
The firm has unveiled a shake-up in Asia, with Ming Lu named sole head of Asia private equity as David Liu and Julian Wolhardt quit to start a new China-focused investment firm.
Duncan Phillips becomes latest to swap banking job for a financial technology firm.
Hemant Sabherwal has left the German bank’s Asia-Pacific equity syndicate desk, the latest in a series of departures over the last twelve months.
The chief executive of JP Morgan's global corporate bank for Asia Pacific talks about the bank's business strategies in India and China and the region operation after Brexit.
Swiss bank hires Patrick No from JP Morgan to enhance business relationships with leading private equity firms and hedge funds in Asia-Pacific.