Canada’s Alimentation Couche-Tard’s revised offer for Seven & i Holdings marks a crucial moment in Japan’s corporate deal making, assessing whether Tokyo’s shareholder initiatives can unlock value for investors; recent political turmoil could also have an impact.

Senior executives from the HKEX, SFC and SIX, discussed tokenisation, the new economy, AI and post-trade settlement, in a panel hosted by FA.

The group's first Korean real estate credit fund will target logistics, data centres, infrastructure and the energy transition.

The three-year deal for the Singaporean bank was priced at a mid-range of 2.3% and could list on the Singapore Exchange.

Apac's largest social bond issuance will be used to finance or refinance the loans under the special 100% loan guarantee of Hong Kong's SME Financing Guarantee Scheme.

The global mining giant sees significant growth opportunities in the lithium market; Arcadium’s operations include around 2,400 employees across Argentina, Australia, Canada, China, Japan, the UK and the US.

The agreement includes an upfront payment of $100m with the aim to strengthen the UK firm's cardiovascular portfolio.

The tech giant plans to open a cloud region to help boost the country’s digital economy, where the government wants to enhance its AI capabilities and to create 3,000 smart factories by 2030.

ECM proceeds have climbed almost 30% up until September 27, when compared to the same time last year; as a result the HKEX is fifth on the global stock exchange rankings.

The bank expects to see increasing demand for digital bonds from the private sector.