Despite challenges, regional opportunities exist in structured credit, defensive corporate exposures, high-yield bonds, and emerging market sovereigns, according to MFS Investment Management's Pilar Gomez-Bravo.

Coller Capital is a global secondaries firm with around $50bn in AUM and six Apac offices. EQT's CEO believes Coller's business can double in size in under four years; the PE giant is paying up to $3.7bn. In Japan, EQT has launched a bid for Mamezo.

The fundraise includes $1.8bn for KKR Asia Credit Opportunities Fund II as the investment giant sees growing investor demand for allocation to private credit in the region; the fund has been used for deals in Hong Kong, India and Australia.

The southeast Asian country continues its diversified sovereign fundraising, while its fiscal deficit for 2025 widened to 2.92%.

The offerings attracted public sector institutions, banks, asset managers, corporates and private banks, with particularly strong participation from Asia.

A $500m, 30-year tranche was added to the latest offering to support India’s regional and international trade activities at a time of global trade tensions.

Loan defaults in Bangladeshi's banking sector have reached an all-time high of 35.7% of total disbursed loans, posing a severe threat to depositors; elections will take place in February 2026.

The Chinese property giant's debt woes will not seriously affect China’s property sector, according to analysts; however, a restructuring might be on the cards.

Soonwook Kwon was most recently managing director and branch manager at UBS in Seoul.

The oversubscribed deal is the first Rmb onshore syndicated loan arranged by Deutsche Bank in China and the first facility of its kind for JC Leasing; the loan is connected to rule changes by NFRA in 2024.