This marks the bank’s first such transaction in ASEAN, issued as part of the contractual requirements for ENGIE’s District Cooling Project at Punggol Digital District.

Foreign appetite for onshore debt will continue to remain resilient with different market cycles appearing to have little to no effect on China’s ability to attract investors, according to Aberdeen Standard Investments.

OMERS bolsters capital markets team in Singapore; Euroclear hires from Citi for new chairman; Sunsuper and QSuper appoint CIO for merged entity; and China-led Green Investment Principles names first chair.

Following a record number of sovereign defaults in 2020, Fitch Ratings believes more are possible going forward.

Investors with $8.8 trillion in assets want Asia’s electric utilities to cut emissions, strengthen disclosure and improve governance of climate-related risks.

Tonik has become the first among all private and purely digital banks to obtain a digital banking licence from the central bank.

With around $69 billion in issuance in the region so far in 2021, borrowers are more focused than ever on environmental, social and governance (ESG) themes to meet investor appetite.

HSBC names two co-chief executives for Asia Pacific; Singapore’s Central Provident Fund Board appoints new chair; Crédit Agricole CIB announces new regional head of acquisition finance and advisory; Amundi reveals new CEO in Hong Kong; State Street unveils new heads of Hong Kong and Taiwan.

New technologies and analytical tools can help investors make use of unstructured data to better assess environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors in emerging markets (EM) securities.