Singaporean regulators investigating Noble Group Ltd. have focused their questions so far on the company’s use of mark-to-market accounting, according to people familiar with the matter. The struggling commodity trader was thrown into fresh crisis last week after Singapore announced a three-agency probe into Noble’s accounts just days before a marathon $3.5 billion debt restructuring was due to complete, Bloomberg News reported. On Sunday, Noble said it would delay the deadline for that deal to Dec.

Unirule Institute of Economics, a Beijing-based think tank advocating free market policies, “will cease public activities under its name temporarily”, its parent company said. Beijing Unirule Consulting Co Ltd said bit.ly/2BwSir1 on Monday its license was revoked after the company received an "Administrative Penalty Notice" on Oct. 22, Reuters reported.

India’s finance industry is letting a good crisis go to waste by not learning from it. The sudden $12.8 billion bankruptcy of infrastructure lender IL&FS Group, currently sequestered under a government-blessed, out-of-court process, underscores India’s lack of preparedness to handle a big shift in lending in recent years — away from banks, a Bloomberg View reported.

It’s been a tough couple years for Pactera Technology International Ltd. The tech outsourcing arm of embattled Chinese conglomerate HNA Group Co. has been ditched by Bank of America Corp. and Goldman Sachs Group Inc., sued over a collapsed acquisition and cut deep into junk territory by Moody’s Investors Service, Bloomberg News reported.

Noble Group Ltd. extended the deadline for its marathon restructuring until Dec. 11 to address regulators’ concerns, a week after Singaporean authorities began an investigation into the embattled commodity trader’s finances, Bloomberg News reported. The company on Sunday moved the deadline for the $3.5 billion debt restructuring back by two weeks. Noble said that Singapore’s Securities Industry Council extended a key waiver to allow the deadline to be pushed back.

For most of the past 83 years, the directors of the Reserve Bank of India went almost unnoticed as they met for regular board meetings to discuss mostly administrative affairs, the Financial Times reported. But when the 18 central board members filed in for this week’s meeting at the RBI’s Mumbai headquarters, they were the object of a media frenzy, with additional police drafted in to monitor a gaggle of cameramen jostling outside the building’s fortified entrance. For the past month, India’s central bank has been at the centre of a political storm like few others in its history.

Some Chinese developers were quick to complete the bulk of their refinancing early in the year, Bloomberg News reported. Those who waited now risk paying dearly for their tardiness, with borrowing costs doubling since January.

Sri Lanka's largest party warned Tuesday that the island could default on its debt as Moody's slashed its credit rating and a bitter power struggle dragged into a fourth week, Daily Mail reported. The South Asian nation has been gripped by an unprecedented political crisis since the president sacked his prime minister on October 26 and appointed former strongman Mahinda Rajapakse in his place. Ranil Wickremesinghe, the ousted premier and leader of the United National Party -- the largest single party in parliament -- refused to step down, declaring his sacking illegal.

Singapore authorities are investigating Noble Group Ltd for suspected false and misleading statements, just days before the Singapore-listed company was to complete its $3.5 billion debt restructuring deal to prevent its collapse, Reuters reported. Noble, once Asia’s top commodity trader, has seen its market value all but wiped out from $6 billion in February 2015 after its accounting was questioned by Iceberg Research.

The Supreme Court approved Binani Cement Ltd.’s sale to UltraTech Cement Ltd. today, upholding the National Company Law Appellate Tribunal’s verdict on the insolvency bids, BloombergQuint reported. The two-judge bench headed by Justice RF Nariman quashed Dalmia Bharat’s plea challenging the verdict, saying there was no infirmity in approval granted by the NCLAT, Bloomberg reported. The appellate tribunal had on Nov 14.