Bloomberg Japan’s biggest lender is planning to raise funds from individual investors to help smaller companies and hospitals tackle the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic. Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc. intends to issue sustainability bonds totalling as much as 150 billion yen ($1.42 billion) in September, after receiving requests from retail investors, according to Isamu Murofushi, a spokesman. The pandemic is boosting …

Bloomberg Singapore’s large pool of fiscal reserves is proving to be a boon for the nation’s currency. The city state’s dollar advanced to its highest level in six months last week — erasing its pandemic-driven losses — after the government unveiled another stimulus package, financed in part by unused expenditure from earlier budgets. With the total for pledged pandemic aid …

Bloomberg The Philippine peso advanced closer towards the psychologically significant level of 48 per dollar after central bank Governor Benjamin Diokno said the market was free to determine its level. Asia’s best-performing currency this year advanced to as strong as 48.62 on Monday after Diokno told Bloomberg Television: “If that’s where the market is going, we can’t do anything about …