FT News Briefing - Will There Still Be an Appetite for AT-1s?

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Major banks in Japan, Singapore and Hong Kong are placing new AT-1 bond deals on hold until market conditions stabilize. The notorious crypto entrepreneur Doh Kwan has been on the run ever since his terra-US-D coin collapsed last year. He was arrested yesterday in Montenegro with falsified documents. Now he's being indicted by prosecutors in the US.

TikTok’s CEO faced bruising questioning in US Congress over the social media app’s links to its Chinese parent company ByteDance, short seller Hindenburg Research has accused payments group Block of artificially inflating its user numbers and facilitating fraudulent transactions, and the wipeout of $17bn of Credit Suisse bonds has sparked panic among rich Asian investors who had loaded up on the risky bank debt.

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TikTok chief faces hostile Congress in bid to fight off US ban

Hindenburg Research shorts Jack Dorsey’s payments group Block

Asia investors ‘gobsmacked’ by $17bn Credit Suisse bond wipeout

Crypto fugitive Do Kwon arrested in Montenegro, says interior minister

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