The cooperation includes a new arrangement between the HKMA and AMCM to facilitate a cross-border investment channel to clear, settle, and hold bonds registered in either market; bond deals are climbing strongly in Macau.

Yuanta Securities (Cambodia) acted as the lead manager and underwriter for a transaction with three tranches worth a total of $49m; the proceeds will finance a 60MWac solar photovoltaic (PV) plant with an integrated battery energy storage system.

Shashwat Tewary has joined from Sidley Austin and will help advise companies and investments banks on transactions including IPOs, bonds, REITs and restructuring.

Phill Hall has worked across Apac on a range of international capital markets transactions, including debt issues, covered bonds and Islamic finance, including in India and Australasia.

Read on for the winners of the 29th iteration of the FinanceAsia Awards, across Australia and New Zealand.

Read on for the winners of the 29th iteration of the FinanceAsia Awards, across Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam.

Read on for the winners of the 29th iteration of the FinanceAsia Awards, across Bangladesh, India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka.

Read on for the winners of the 29th iteration of the FinanceAsia Awards, across mainland China, Hong Kong SAR, Mongolia, South Korea and Taiwan.

US president Donald Trump has ordered a 90-day pause on retaliatory tariffs above the 10% already imposed, except for Chinese goods, with tariffs now at 145% after China retaliated; Trump has now put tariff exemptions on smartphones, electronics and computers.

The US-China trade war, sparked by US president Donald Trump's tariffs, looks like it is just beginning, with global markets set to be on a roller coaster for weeks; China has now retaliated further.