Two companies controlled by tycoons Malvinder and Shivinder Singh announced a reorganization as the brothers wrestle with debt and legal tangles, Bloomberg News reported. The Singh brothers’ Religare Enterprises Ltd. announced a shakeup late Tuesday, with Malvinder stepping down as non-executive chairman of the financial services and small-business lender while four other officials also resigned.

What a debt restructuring at Noble Group Ltd. might look like has become an even more pressing question after the beleaguered commodity trader started talks with stakeholders on potential options to address its capital structure. The company said discussions are at a preliminary stage and in line with its objectives to “manage the maturity of its borrowings,” moving it a step closer toward restructuring its borrowings, Bloomberg News reported. The coming weeks are likely to be critical for the company, which posted another $1 billion-plus loss in the third quarter.

The first default on U.S. dollar bonds by an Indian company in 15 months may become a closely-watched test case for how international creditors will fare under the country’s new bankruptcy laws, Bloomberg News reported. Reliance Communications Ltd., the Indian mobile phone operator controlled by billionaire Anil Ambani, failed to pay a coupon on its 2020 dollar notes before the expiry of a grace period on Monday, according to a person familiar with the matter. It’s India’s most high-profile default on international debt since the nation’s insolvency and bankruptcy code was passed in May 2016.

Shares and bonds in Reliance Communications, the struggling telecoms group run by billionaire tycoon Anil Ambani, plummeted to record lows on Monday after the company announced heavy losses over the weekend and confirmed it had missed debt repayments, the Financial Times reported. RCom said on Saturday that it had lost Rs28.2bn ($431m) before tax in the three months to the end of September, having lost Rs1.2bn in the same quarter last year. It also confirmed it had missed two rupee-denominated bond repayments in recent weeks, having entered a formal debt restructuring two weeks ago.

Australian coal rail operator Aurizon Holdings said on Monday it was in talks to buy the Wiggins Island Coal Export Terminal (WICET), which urgently needs to restructure $3 billion in debt, the International New York Times reported on a Reuters story. A purchase would mark a change in strategy under new Chief Executive Andrew Harding for Australia's largest rail freight operator, which runs nearly 2,700 kms (1,680 miles) of rail lines transporting millions of tonnes of coal a year.

Toshiba Corp. plans to raise ¥600 billion ($5.3 billion) through a new share offering if a ¥2 trillion deal to sell its chip unit doesn’t get on track to meet an end-of-March deadline, a person familiar with the matter said. The plan fits into Toshiba’s effort to recover from the financial blow it suffered when its U.S. nuclear unit, Westinghouse Electric Co., filed for bankruptcy protection in March, The Wall Street Journal reported. Toshiba’s shareholder equity stood at negative ¥619.8 billion as of Sept.

For more than two years, the story of whether Noble Group Ltd. will survive or implode has gripped the global commodities industry, Bloomberg News reported. The next chapter gets written on Thursday as the Hong Kong-based trader reports quarterly results after the close of trade in Asia. Another vast loss has been flagged after the profit-warning last month, with Noble Group guiding a range of $1.1 billion to $1.25 billion. At the same time, the company founded decades ago by Richard Elman struck a deal to downsize drastically by offloading its prized oil-trading unit to Vitol Group.

What happens when you say you’ve taken away a safety net, but nobody believes you? That’s essentially what’s going on in one corner of China’s bond market, with the implication being that someone needs to get hurt before the message hits home. The issue relates to local government financing vehicles, or LGFVs, which boomed a decade ago when China’s Communist leadership let provincial and municipal authorities ramp up borrowing to fund all sorts of infrastructure and property development, Bloomberg News reported.

Reliance Communications Ltd., the Indian mobile phone operator controlled by billionaire Anil Ambani, said it isn’t paying a dollar bond coupon, Bloomberg News reported. The failure to honor the obligation marks the company’s first missed interest payment on a note in the U.S. currency, and represents the latest setback amid a shakeout in the world’s second-largest telecom market. The firm announced last month the collapse of its merger plans with rival Aircel Ltd., a deal which could have helped it pare debt and better compete with rivals.

China’s financial system is getting significantly more vulnerable due to high leverage, according to central bank governor Zhou Xiaochuan, who also flagged the need for deeper reforms in the world’s second-biggest economy, Bloomberg News reported. Latent risks are accumulating, including some that are "hidden, complex, sudden, contagious and hazardous," even as the overall health of the financial system remains good, Zhou wrote in a lengthy article published on the People’s Bank of China’s website late Saturday.