China's digital yuan operation centre signed direct participant agreements with 26 financial institutions in Shanghai on Tuesday, aiming to expand low-cost, efficient cross-border payments and advance global adoption of the Chinese currency. The international operation centre of the digital yuan...
GCC fixed-income yields are benefitting from a decline in geopolitical risk premiums following the US-Iran deal, according to Fitch Ratings. This is reflected in yield spreads between GCC investment-grade debt and US Treasury bonds having returned to pre-war levels. Spreads...
The central bank decides to raise its short-term policy rate to 1% from 0.75%. The Bank of Japan (BOJ) raised interest rates to a 31-year high on Tuesday (Jun 16), marking another landmark step in normalising monetary policy as it...
Allianz Trade has lowered its global economic growth forecast, warning that persistent tariff uncertainty and rising trade barriers are creating fresh headwinds for international trade and increasing pressure on businesses’ working capital requirements. The trade credit insurer said growing protectionism...
Global AI-related debt issuance is on track to nearly hit $570 billion this year — more than twice last year's total — according to a new forecast from Morgan Stanley cited by Reuters. With hyperscaler capital spending projected to cross...
The Philippines, Thailand, and Sri Lanka will be most negatively affected. APAC banks face higher energy prices and weak growth, but impact across markets will be mixed, said Fitch Ratings. The region’s high dependence on oil and gas imports renders it...
The partnership will support consented cross-border credit report applications between Singapore and Malaysia. Credit Bureau Singapore and Experian Malaysia have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to develop a two-way cross-border credit reporting service between Singapore and Malaysia. The collaboration will...
China raised $37.8b and accounted for 61.7% of regional proceeds. Equity and equity-related issuance in Asia-Pacific excluding Japan reached a three-year high of $61.2b in the year to date in first quarter 2026 (Q1 2026), up 40.3% from a year...
Total value of global markets surges to $161.1 trillion since start of US-Israel-Iran war, while highest performance among indexes comes in Kospi with 22.7% surge. Ongoing geopolitical tensions in the Middle East were overshadowed by a sweeping rally in artificial...
Global trade in ocean-related services rose to $1.44 trillion in 2025, representing 58% of the $2.5 trillion ocean economy and surpassing goods as the dominant segment of ocean trade, according to new data from the United Nations Conference on...
