Bloomberg China’s financial regulators are calling for more transparent and fair handling of defaults to restore investor confidence in the world’s second-largest bond market, after repayment failures hit a record high this year. Senior officials from the central bank, the securities regulatory body, the supreme court and other departments discussed court-mediated dispute resolution concerning bond defaults at a symposium in …

Bloomberg Scandal-hit Indian lender Punjab National Bank (PNB) alleged it has been cheated — its third complaint since 2018 when it suffered through a $2 billion blow. The state-run bank filed a complaint in October alleging that Jagdish Khattar, founder of Carnation Auto India Pvt, a vehicle repair and servicing company, cheated the bank of 1.1 billion rupees ($15.4 million), …

Bloomberg After a decade-long debt crisis that made Greece a bond-market pariah, the country now enjoys the luxury of having no financing needs for 2020. Yet the government’s 2020 budget shows it still plans to sell new debt. Despite a cash buffer of some 32 billion euros ($35.6 billion) left over from the country’s bailout programme, Greece wants to maintain …