Nasdaq-listed e-commerce luxury goods retailer Secoo has reportedly filed for bankruptcy with the First Intermediate People’s Court of Beijing Municipality – seven months after its last filing, according to Tianyancha, Inside Retail reported. According to LegalDaily, earlier this year Secoo filed for bankruptcy on the grounds it was unable to pay off its debts. The petition was subsequently withdrawn.
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China’s low interest rates are failing to spur lending in the economy, creating a challenge for policy makers as they try to bolster the nation’s fragile recovery, Bloomberg News reported. Central bank data on Friday showed a sharp slowdown in aggregate financing, a broad measure of credit, in July, as new loans and corporate bond issuance weakened. At the same time, growth of M2, the broadest measure of money supply, accelerated more than expected to 12% in July.
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India’s anti-money laundering agency has frozen assets worth $46.4 million from the local entity of Vauld for facilitating “crime-derived” proceeds from predatory lending firms in the latest headache for the crypto exchange that filed for protection from creditors last month, TechCrunch reported.
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The National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) has admitted Mumbai-based Topworth Urja & Metals under the Corporate Insolvency Resolution Process (CIRP) and appointed Alok Kailash Saksena as an interim resolution professional for the company, the Economic Times of India reported. State-owned lender Bank of Baroda had approached the bankruptcy court in 2018 against Abhay Lodha- promoted Topworth Urja & Metals after it defaulted on its dues of about ₹ 218 crore. "The application made by the financial creditor is complete in all respects as required by law.
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Huobi Group founder Leon Li is engaged in talks with a group of investors as the Chinese entrepreneur is looking to sell his majority stake in the crypto exchange at a valuation between $2 billion to $3 billion, according to a Bloomberg report, Decrypt reported. People close to the matter said that FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried and Tron founder Justin Sun are among the investors who have held preliminary talks with the Huobi boss. Li is reportedly seeking to sell about 60% of the firm.
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The number of initial public offerings at the Philippine Stock Exchange will probably rise to a record this year, with a value of at least 150 billion pesos ($2.7 billion), bourse President Ramon Monzon said in a virtual briefing, Reuters reported. The guidance is based on existing IPOs in the pipeline and share sales that have already take place, including eight in the first half of the year that raised a total of 76.17 billion pesos, according to Monson.
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New Zealand home prices fell on an annual basis for the first time in 11 years in July, adding to signs of a slowdown for the global economy as central bankers worldwide try to tame inflation, the Wall Street Journal reported. The national median sale price of 810,000 New Zealand dollars, equivalent to $519,000, was 1.8% lower than a year earlier, cooled by higher interest rates and lending restrictions, the country’s real-estate institute said Thursday. It was the first annual fall in prices since July 2011.
Credit Suisse Group AG has applied to the English High Court to initiate formal legal proceedings against Japan's SoftBank Group Corp. over a $440 million dispute, one source familiar with the matter said on Thursday, Reuters reported. Switzerland's second-largest bank is trying to recover funds that Greensill Capital, a defunct finance firm, had lent to Katerra, a SoftBank-backed U.S. construction group that filed for bankruptcy last year.
China's real estate crisis is casting a darkening cloud over governance and financial prospects of once highly valued property management companies, triggering a rout in their shares and making investors cautious, Reuters reported. Already battered share prices have fallen a further 7% this month as investors have reacted to the latest instances of such companies lending support to cash-strapped developer parents.
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Lenders led by Bank of India have appointed BDO India to conduct a forensic audit of Future Retail, which is facing insolvency proceedings, the Economic Times of India reported. Kishore Biyani-led Future Retail had attempted to stave off bankruptcy by selling its companies to Reliance Industries' retail unit. Creditors did not approve the deal and the company was admitted to the National Company Law Tribunal for insolvency proceedings after it defaulted on ₹3,495 crore debt.
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