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* The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has frozen the assets of unidentified customers of Singapore-based broker-dealer Maybank Kim Eng Securities Pte. Ltd. who made about US$1.7 million in potentially illegal trading profits, before SoftBank Group Corp. announced its acquisition of U.S.-based Fortress Investment Group LLC, The Straits Times reported.
* The Qatar Investment Authority sold 35 million H-shares of Agricultural Bank of China Ltd. for HK$126 million, Reuters reported. The sovereign wealth fund now owns 10.96% of the bank, up from 11.07% in January.
* France-based Natixis opened a branch in Taipei, nine years after first setting up a representative office in Taiwan, The China Post reported. The branch will provide corporate and investment banking services, said Francois Riahl, Natixis' global co-head of corporate and investment banking.
* Bank Negara Malaysia decided to maintain the overnight policy rate at 3% on the back of the economy's positive growth momentum.
GREATER CHINA
* Guo Shuqing, the newly appointed chairman of China Banking Regulatory Commission, vowed to strengthen supervision of the lending sector, Caixin reported. He noted that more than 430 billion yuan of debt-to-equity swap deals had been signed as of early February, with more than 400 billion yuan of deals currently being processed.
* A total of 51 companies canceled the issuance of corporate bonds worth 45.9 billion yuan in 2017 as of Feb. 27...