Syndicated loans in H1 fell to its lowest six-month tally in 3 years. Syndicated lending in Asia Pacific (excluding Japan) declined 3.39% year-on-year (YoY- to $241.48b in the first six months of 2025, according to data from the London Stock...
Oracle has launched new cloud-based trade and supply chain finance (SCF) services designed to help banks accelerate lending to corporate clients and small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). This comes as Oracle shares soared to a record high yesterday: in addition...
Seed investment activity is shifting away from hedge funds and other liquid strategies and moving toward private equity and private credit, according to Seward & Kissel’s 2024 Seed Transaction Deal Points study. The study, released on Monday by the New...
Asset manager Schroders (AUM £758bn / $1 trillion) is setting up a digital assets center of excellence in Singapore after participating in the local Project Guardian tokenization sandbox. While Singapore has been at the forefront of digital asset and tokenization...
Kazakhstan is successfully diversifying its economy by expanding its non-resource export sector, reaching $40.6 billion in 2024—surpassing targets. Key growth areas include industrial manufacturing, agriculture, IT, and logistics. In recent years, Kazakhstan has been actively pursuing a policy aimed at...
Saudi Arabia attracted SR22.2 billion ($5.9 billion) in net foreign direct investment in the first quarter of 2025, up 44 percent year on year, driven by rising inflows and sharply lower capital outflows. According to figures released by the General...
The demand for private debt has reached new heights in Europe, according to research from Neuberger Berman. The firm’s most recent European Fund Selector Study found that this year 47% of respondents were planning to boost their private debt allocations. This...
The Bank of Mexico lowered its benchmark interest rate by half of a percentage point in a split vote and left the door open for further cuts. The five-member board of governors voted 4-1 in favor of cutting the overnight...
The commitment by the French infrastructure investor will support the creation of one gigawatt of renewable energy capacity across Europe. Infranity, a Paris-based asset manager specialising in sustainable infrastructure, has invested €200m in Blue Elephant Energy, a Hamburg, Germany-based renewable...
The “stability” of private credit markets versus public markets has been “amplified” by the recent spike in volatility triggered by the rollout of tariffs in the US, playing into its strengths as a “preferred partner”, according to Blue Owl’s...
