Westinghouse Electric Co LLC, Toshiba Corp's nuclear services business, has made an agreement with its creditors that will clear the company's path out of bankruptcy, according to three people familiar with the matter. The deal will divvy up cash from the $4.6 billion proposed sale of Westinghouse to Brookfield Business Partners, an affiliate of Canada's Brookfield Asset Management, the International New York Times reported on a Reuters story.

Dalian Wanda Group has agreed to sell its interests in the high-profile London luxury development project, One Nine Elms, for 59 million pounds, the latest in a string of asset sales that underscore financial strains hitting the Chinese conglomerate, the International New York Times reported on a Reuters story. The conglomerate, which has businesses that range from real estate to football and cinemas, had initially said it wanted to transfer ownership of some its overseas assets to its holding company as part of a restructuring, keeping them within the group.

India’s $207 billion bad loan pile could get worse, Bloomberg News reported. Delinquencies are rising in the affordable housing sector, a pet project for Prime Minister Narendra Modi that’s touted as a main growth driver for Asia’s third-largest economy. Most of these were loans below 200,000 rupees ($3,100) made to some of the poorest Indians, whose incomes are now under threat as economic expansion slows. "Loan defaults have been the largest and are rising in the smaller ticket sizes, creating our own subprime class," said Nilanjan Karfa, analyst at Jefferies India Pvt.

A unit of HNA Group Co. sought more time to complete the arrangement of a second bridge loan it took to finance a luxury real-estate development in Hong Kong as the Chinese conglomerate juggles its borrowings following a debt-fueled acquisition spree, Bloomberg News reported. Hong Kong International Investment Group Co. needs “extra time” and the loan has been extended for six months through July 15, it said in an emailed statement on Monday.

That 2017 suffered from more than its fair share of natural catastrophes was known at the time. In the wake of Hurricane Harvey, the streets of Houston, Texas, were submerged under brown floodwater; Hurricane Irma razed buildings to the ground on some Caribbean islands. That the destruction was great enough for insurance losses to reach record levels has only just been confirmed. According to figures released on January 4th by Munich Re, a reinsurer, global, inflation-adjusted insured catastrophe losses reached an all-time high of $135bn in 2017, The Economist reported.

Noble Group is closing down its London oil desk and winding down its Asia oil operations, sources familiar with the matter said, as heavy losses and high debt force what was once Asia's biggest commodities trader to restructure, the International New York Times reported on a Reuters story. The closures follow the sale of its larger U.S. oil trading business to Vitol, announced in October, and a nine-month loss of some $3 billion reported in November.

India is likely to consider expanding its bankruptcy law to include cross-border insolvency, which helps lenders tap defaulters' assets overseas, as a top panel at the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Board of India (IBBI) meets Thursday to help strengthen the framework dedicated toward recovering bad loans, the Economic Times reported. "Cross-border insolvency is on top of the agenda. The authorities are keen to make that happen as there is no provision under the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (IBC) for it," an executive privy to the matter told ET.

The Mumbai bench of NCLT on Tuesday granted the resolution professional of debt ridden steel company Monnet Ispat and Energy an extension of 90 days to complete its insolvency resolution process as the initial 180 days were to expire on January 13, the Economic Times reported. The extension will give the resolution practitioner and lenders more time to negotiate with JSW Steel on the terms of the resolution plan submitted by them to acquire the company. A consortium of Aion Capital Partners and JSW Steel had emerged as the sole bidder for Monnet.

Listed Philippine Telegraph & Telephone Corp. (PT&T) is poised to implement a capital restructuring plan that would settle long-running obligations ahead of the entry of a foreign strategic partner, Inquirer.net reported. A key feature of the plan, according to PT&T chief operating officer Miguel Bitanga, is the conversion of its creditors into preferred shareholders, which was outlined under the company’s court-mandated rehabilitation. This was linked to a series of steps, including increasing PT&T’s authorized capital.

The world's three largest credit-ratings companies have a bit of catching up to do. Eight high-yield developers listed in Hong Kong should now be investment grade, according to Bloomberg's default risk model, which uses market inputs such as debt outstanding, interest expenses and operating cash flow to calculate the probability of firms reneging on their obligations in the year ahead, Bloomberg News reported in a commentary. Bloomberg's default risk model shows that companies from Country Garden to CIFI Holdings deserve an investment-grade ranking.