Nidec Corp. secured a ¥600 billion ($3.9 billion) credit line from MUFG Bank Ltd. and SMBC, easing concerns about potential liquidity strains at the maker of precision motors amid an ongoing probe into accounting issues, Bloomberg News reported. The commitment line agreement comprises two bilateral contracts of ¥300 billion each, unsecured and unguaranteed, with a contract period valid for one year from Nov. 7. Nidec’s stock rose as much as 5% early Wednesday.
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From the launch of new products and services in Japan to facilitating leveraged trading bets, crypto exchanges and some financial firms are rushing to cash in on rising investor enthusiasm for digital assets amid hopes of easing regulations, Reuters reported. The recent surge underscores a higher appetite for riskier investments in Japan as inflation outpaces wage growth and overrides a wariness around crypto investments that followed serious security breaches at exchanges in 2014 and 2018.
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The Supreme Court in India on Friday agreed to hear on Monday an appeal by U.S.-based Glas Trust Co. against Aakash Educational Services' move to conduct a rights issue that would reduce Byju's parent Think & Learn's stake from 25.75% to below 5%, the Economic Times reported. Glas Trust, a U.S.-based lender to Think & Learn and a member of its committee of creditors (CoC), has moved the top court, challenging a National Company Law Appellate Tribunal's order that refused to stay Aakash's EGM on October 29.

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A virtual hearing between Victory Shipping Pte Ltd. and Integr8 Fuels Pte Ltd., organised by the High Court of the Republic of Singapore, is scheduled to take place on Tuesday (14 November), the Manifold Times reported. The event is to set aside a statutory demand served on 3 October 2025 by Integr8 Fuels lawyers under Section 125(2)(c) and Section 10 of the Insolvency, Restructuring and Dissolution Act 2018 (IRDA) against Victory Shipping, according to court documents obtained by the bunkering publication.

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The Rose Bay investment property of bankrupt hospitality entrepreneur Jon Adgemis has been sold for $12 million, after nearly two months on the market, according to a now-removed listing on the Cotality website, the Greek Herald reported. The six-bedroom, five-bathroom home, purchased by Adgemis and his mother Rose in 2018 for $4.45 million, had been occupied by family members. Adgemis’ bankruptcy trustee, Andrew Yeo of Pitcher Partners, has advised that an update to creditors is expected in early November.

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A new study by the Indian Institute of Management (IIM)-Indore has found that corporate bankruptcies can have far-reaching consequences beyond the failed firms themselves — potentially destabilising even financially healthy companies within the same industry, the Free Press Journal reported. Published in the reputed journal Finance Research Letters, the study, titled “Bankruptcy Spillovers and Stock Price Crash Risk of Non-Bankrupt Firms,” is co-authored by Prof. Radha Mukesh Ladkani of IIM-Indore.

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The Bank of Japan held rates steady again, narrowing the window of opportunity to hike before year’s end as it waits for clarity on the impact of tariffs and a political leadership change in Tokyo, the Wall Street Journal reported. In a widely expected move, the central bank maintained its overnight call rate target at 0.5%, extending a pause since its last hike in January. That leaves one more chance to resume tightening this year: at the bank’s final meeting in December. BOJ Gov.
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China's factory activity shrank for a seventh month in October, dragged by a drop in new export orders as the boost from months of front-loading to beat U.S. President Donald Trump's tariff threats finally wore off, Reuters reported. The official purchasing managers' index (PMI) fell to 49.0 in October from 49.8 in September, a six-month low, the National Bureau of Statistics' survey showed on Friday, remaining below the 50-mark separating growth from contraction and missing a forecast of 49.6 in a Reuters poll. Policymakers had banked on producers rushing goods to the U.S.
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