Han Shih Toh

The upcoming launch of Hong Kong's first sovereign green bond and recent green measures will grow the city's green financial market in scale and maturity.

The arrest of Liu Shiyu, former chairman of the China Securities Regulatory Commission, is unlikely to derail the programme to open up China's financial markets.

A foreign exchange risk mitigation platform will boost private investment and bond issuance funding infrastructure in Asean.

Bigger Chinese real estate firms are gaining market share and more discriminatory credit markets are partly the reason why.

MGM China, which operates casinos in Macau, will issue two US dollar notes totaling $1.25 billion.

As creditors like BNP Paribas press the Singapore-listed firm for payment, Hyflux is racing against a debt restructuring deadline to find a new white knight.

China's Belt and Road Initiative exacerbates debt risks for poorer nations with weak governance but it is unfair to paint China as a loan shark, US think tanks say.

Citic Guoan Group, a subsidiary of state-owned conglomerate Citic, has defaulted on its Rmb3 billion bond. It is the biggest corporate bond default in China so far this year.

China hopes a new framework might help countries avoid unsustainable levels of Belt and Road-related debt. But, as Malaysia has shown, some hard bargaining may also be in order.

A shareholder dispute is escalating at Hong Kong Airlines and creditors have seized most of the assets of CWT International. Both firms are partially owned by troubled HNA Group.