In a related story, the Financial Times reported that struggling commodity trader Noble Group said it expects to find a buyer for its global oil business this month, as it continues to shrink its operations in a bid to stave off defaulting on its debts. Speaking at a special general meeting in Singapore, where the Hong Kong-based trader is listed, chairman Paul Brough told investors the sale should be agreed by the end of September.

Greenland Holdings Corp., China’s fourth-biggest developer by property sales, said it had overdue loans of 457.5 million yuan ($69.2 million) in some units in the northeast province of Liaoning at the end of June, underscoring concerns about the company’s debt problems, Bloomberg News reported. Companies under Greenland’s unit in Liaoning had overdue short-term debt of 247.5 million yuan, as well as 210 million yuan in long-term obligations, according to Greenland’s interim report dated Aug. 25.

The International Swaps and Derivatives Association (ISDA) said it will publish a statement on Wednesday addressing the widespread confusion around Noble Group’s credit-default swaps, which has pitted the world’s biggest investment banks against each other in a tussle over payouts on the credit derivatives, the Financial Times reported. While the debt-laden commodity trader has not formally defaulted on any debt, buyers of CDS linked to Noble claim that a recent extension to loan repayment terms amounted to a debt restructuring — which can also trigger payouts.

Tajikistan is seeking to tap the international bond market for the first time, kicking off what bankers anticipate will be a blitz of emerging market bond issuance. The central Asian nation is looking to issue 10-year, dollar-denominated debt, the Financial Times reported. It could come to the market as early as next week, according to a person familiar with the finance ministry’s thinking, in what could be the first emerging market sovereign debt deal since the summer break.

Venezuela's close ally China said on Monday that history shows external interference and unilateral sanctions only make things more complex and will not help resolve problems, after the United States imposed new sanctions on Venezuela, the International New York Times reported on a Reuters story. U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order that prohibits dealings in new debt from the Venezuelan government or its state oil company on Friday in an effort to halt financing that the White House said fuels President Nicolas Maduro's "dictatorship".

U.S. media company CBS Corp. plans to acquire Australian broadcaster Ten Network Holdings Ltd., beating out a bid from Australian media moguls Bruce Gordon and Lachlan Murdoch for the company after it went into receivership, The Wall Street Journal reported. CBS’s bid was favored by receivers for Ten Network, one of Australia’s three main broadcasters, over a proposal from Messrs. Gordon and Murdoch, who wanted to run the broadcaster as a joint venture, people familiar with the deal said. Mr.

The Turkish lira corporate bond market is in the doldrums and the nation’s largest independent fund manager says the government needs to step in to get it going again. A string of defaults and restructurings has dampened investor appetite for the 18 billion lira ($5.2 billion) market in corporate debt, issuance has slowed, and a borrowing binge by the Treasury has increased competition for a limited savings pool, Bloomberg News reported.

Overseas fund managers and companies are tracking India’s efforts to force its biggest defaulters into insolvency proceedings as interest in buying distressed assets grows, according to investment bank Moelis & Co. A dozen companies in sectors including steel, power and construction may become buyout targets after the Reserve Bank of India ordered lenders to take them to insolvency court and set in motion a timeline for them to devise a restructuring plan or face liquidation, Bloomberg News reported.

Rising corporate profits are providing Chinese policymakers with room to do more to tackle the country’s growing debt problems without inflicting major damage on the economy, the International New York Times reported on a Reuters story. Profits are increasing even though financial conditions are tightening in some significant areas of the economy; lending rates have inched higher, regulators have clamped down against risky lending and have moved to take the heat out of the property sector.

ICICI Bank Ltd, a major lender to Unimark Remedies Ltd, is in talks with Edelweiss Asset Reconstruction Co. (ARC) Ltd to sell its loans, according to two people aware of the development. A couple of other ARCs, including Multiples ARC Pvt. Ltd, have also evinced interested in Mumbai-based Unimark but the discussions were unsuccessful, one of the two people said, requesting anonymity. The discussions with Edelweiss ARC is at a preliminary stage, the second person said on condition of anonymity.