Korean financial institutions suffer $150m cross-default on Chinese bond insolvency – The Korea Herald
South Koreas financial institutions suffered insolvency of asset-backed commercial papers Friday at midnight, following a Chinese firms default on payments due for bonds. The ABCPs were backed by dollar-denominated bonds worth $150 million that were declared insolvent Thursday. This accounts for some 7 percent of all bonds issued by CERCG Overseas Capital, a Hong Kong…