Equity

The bank wants to help scale digital 'platform players', and is also offering $150m of venture debt to the Singapore market to provide financing to early-stage, high-growth companies backed by venture capital or private equity.

Mirae Asset Global Investments (Hong Kong) has issued two ETFs, investing in the Hang Seng Index and the Hang Seng China Enterprises Index. The HKEX also posted its second best results, as Bonnie Chan becomes CEO and Belle Fashion eyes a return.

2023 was a testing time for many of Asia's stock markets through a combination of weak performance and a lack of IPOs. FA looks at what went wrong, how sentiment might improve and some of the continent's bright spots.

FinanceAsia recently caught up with Udhay Furtado and Kenneth Chow, co-heads of Asia equity capital markets, Citi, on the health of the region's IPO market.

The deal involved the chipmaker's German subsidiary and was the first ever public exchangeable issuance out of a Taiwan group issuer into a non-Taiwanese listed underlying.

Aravind Krishnan, a managing director at Blackstone Private Equity, will relocate from Mumbai to lead the expanding Southeast Asia team.

Investors are divided whether peak pessimism and distressed valuations will reverse the asset class’s underperformance, or if recent trends are set to continue in 2024.

Malaysia’s Joint Committee on Climate Change (JC3) met last month to outline five initiatives to expedite the market’s transition to net zero. FA spoke to experts to assess the regulatory environment that Malaysia is working to cultivate, in support of climate-conscious investment.

Experts share insights around the value potential of a digital currency, following the HKMA’s publication of an initial report on the pilot.