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Posted Date: April 1, 2022 The MARC360: Sustainable Development Financing 2022 Virtual Conference continued with Day 2 yesterday and began with a discourse on current sustainable energy innovations and global trends. The first session, titled “Sustainable Energy Innovations in the Age of Climate Change”, explored the global transition towards new energy in the efforts to […]

Posted Date: March 31, 2022 The third iteration of the MARC360 conference series, titled “Sustainable Development Financing 2022” commenced yesterday morning and is being held over two half-days on March 30-31, 2022. The virtual conference was officiated by the Minister of Finance Malaysia, YB Senator Tengku Datuk Seri Utama Zafrul Bin Tengku Abdul Aziz. On

Posted Date: March 24, 2022 The local bond market continued to record net foreign inflow for the third consecutive month, albeit at a declining magnitude in February. The ongoing military conflict between Ukraine and Russia raised the safety demand for bonds as haven assets. Foreign investors remained as net buyers although total net foreign inflow

Posted Date: March 24, 2022 MARC Ratings today published its 2021 Annual Corporate Default and Ratings Transition Study which tracks the history of corporate ratings assigned by the rating agency since its inception in 1996 through to December 31, 2021. This is MARC Ratings’ 17th Annual Corporate Default and Ratings Transition Study. In 2021, MARC

Posted Date: March 23, 2022 MARC will be hosting the third instalment of its MARC360 conference series, MARC360: SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT FINANCING 2022 VIRTUAL CONFERENCE over two half-days on March 30-31, 2022. Seeing as sustainable development goals (SDGs) are increasingly on the agenda for many organisations globally, this conference is timely to discuss current issues and

Posted Date: March 9, 2021 MARC Ratings Berhad has published its 2021 Lead Managers’ League Tables. The Lead Managers’ League Tables provide a meaningful measure of domestic bond issuances rated by MARC given that only issuances which have attained financial close are included. MARC Ratings is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Malaysian Rating Corporation Berhad (MARC),

Posted Date: February 18, 2022 Soaring inflation led to surging bond yields across the global markets in January 2022. The Federal Open Market Committee meeting saw the US Federal Reserve (Fed) leave the federal funds rate unchanged in the first month of the year. Nevertheless, future rate hikes are expected as the Fed hinted that

Posted Date: February 10, 2022 We envisage Malaysia’s GDP growth pace in 4Q2021 to come in at 4.2% y-o-y (3Q2021: -4.5%) given the pickup in economic activity at the time as more states transitioned into Phase 2 of the National Recovery Plan. Our estimate is based on improved high-frequency indicators in 4Q2021 vis-à-vis 4Q2020; such

Posted Date: January 26, 2022 The local bond market returned positive in December, offsetting the net foreign outflow in the preceding month. Net foreign inflow into local bonds broadened to RM6.2 billion (Nov: -RM3.6 billion) amid risk-on sentiment and steady global economic recovery. Total foreign holdings jumped to RM256.6 billion (Nov: RM250.4 billion), the highest