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Christie Ou

Christie Ou is the Asia-Pacific reporter for PERE covering the private equity real estate markets in the region. Prior to joining PERE, she covered Asia’s business market for Bloomberg Business Week Chinese and the credit market for UK-based Private Debt Investor. She is a native speaker of Cantonese and Mandarin, with solid command of writing and speaking in English. Christie holds her bachelor degree at London School of Economics and a master degree in journalism at the University of Hong Kong.
New York-based debt veteran Rich Randall will lead IFM’s global debt investment teams.
DBS Bank, OCBC Bank and United Overseas Bank will jointly support innovative start-ups and growth enterprises.
Real estate firm JLL has appointed Tim Du Temple as head of Australian debt advisory, based in the Sydney office.
The private debt market in Asia is growing in popularity as dynamics shift in its favour, but investors are still largely operating in the dark.
The Asian Development Bank is providing six nonrecourse loans to finance the development of clean energy in India. The project will reduce nearly 1.2 million tons of carbon dioxide emissions annually. 
The debt-to-equity swap will pass 70% of the company’s shares to lenders and reduce its debt by half.  
Private equity firm Apollo Global Management (Apollo) is teaming up with International Financial Corporation (IFC), the investment arm of the World Bank, to launch a $1 billion debt platform for distressed assets in emerging markets. According to an IFC filing, IFC and Apollo will each inject up to $500 million in the non-performing loans (NPLs) […]
The company joins a growing number of state owned enterprises that have been defaulting on debt lately, including Baoding Tianwei Group, Sinosteel Corporation and Shanxi Huayu.  
The Musale family has bought back 51% of auto graphics firm Classic Stripes from Navis Capital Partners with debt financing from KKR.
The IFC will make its commitment against the backdrop of the country’s growing long-term funding need.
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