Ryan Cheng

The former Hillhouse and KKR executive joins as the Singapore-headquartered digital infrastructure platform expands across Asia Pacific and Europe.

The agreement will support the planned August launch of Hong Kong’s five-year China government bond futures, offering offshore investors a new renminbi interest rate risk management tool.

The trading and energy company has issued its first global bond; the move comes two months after becoming Korea's first non-financial company to issue blockchain-based digital bonds via HSBC Orion.

The Reserve Bank of Australia said the cash rate remains its primary policy tool, but new guidance sets out how it could deploy additional monetary tools to respond and prepare for future crises, such as another pandemic on the scale of Covid-19.

The Mapletree Investments finance chief will succeed Png Chin Yee, who will focus on leading Temasek Singapore.

The financial affiliate of Hyundai Motor Group has become the first Korean credit-specialised firm to issue the instrument in both US dollars and renminbi; the issuance is structured as a green bond.

The Hong Kong-based banker was most recently the bank's head of technology and communications corporate banking for Japan, Asia North and Australia, and Asia South.

The Bank of Japan raised its policy rate to the highest level since 1995 and and said it will stop paring back its bond purchases from April 2027, amid rising energy costs and firming inflation expectations. The US Fed has held rates steady at the new chair’s first meeting.

The framework will support IDR-CNH settlement between Indonesia and Hong Kong, alongside moves to enhance Indonesia-China QR payment connectivity and CIPS access.

HKMC’s inaugural public digital bond is the largest digital bond issuance globally to date and the first from a public-sector entity in Hong Kong. The proceeds will be used to help support liquidity in Hong Kong's housing sector.

The former Citibank executive succeeds Anthony Mathias amid a series of leadership appointments at the oil and gas firm.

The 21-member group will advise on expanding bond tokenisation beyond a series of government pilots, as Hong Kong accelerates its digital financial development.