A collaboration between Vemanti, Finastra and Lendscape will expand the financing solutions on offer to Southeast Asia’s community of SMEs. The launch of a new digital bank is set to follow.
It can be red faces all round when it comes to debt financing without a healthy dose of ESG. Even in cost-sensitive emerging markets sustainable finance is going mainstream.
A $625 million financing structure for PT Halmahera Persada Lygend (PT HPAL), Indonesia’s first high pressure acid leach smelter, will support the country’s ambitions for the electric vehicle (EV) and battery manufacturing.
News that Canadian energy firm Enbridge issued the world’s first corporate bond linked to the Secured Overnight Financing Rate (SOFR) has been greeted as a watershed. Is Asia playing catch up?