ByteDance is set to secure a roughly $29.6 bln dollar-denominated syndicated loan, enlarged from an initial $20 bln plan after strong bank demand. Proceeds are for general corporate purposes. The transaction has not been signed and lenders are still confirming allocations. If completed, it would be the second-largest USD syndicated loan in Asia this year, after SoftBank’s $40 bln March bridge loan. ByteDance is accelerating AI investment and is considering raising 2026 capital expenditure to as

China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and nine other ministries said the 15th Five-Year Plan for SME development encourages leading and platform firms to open data governance and data-use capabilities to small and medium enterprises, including services such as data cleaning, labeling, transaction matching and analytics. The plan calls for exploring data circulation infrastructure to enable secure, trusted flows of high-value data between large, medium and small firms. It promotes wider application of cybersecurity insurance to raise SME cyber and data defenses and seeks to strengthen data-related standards and technical supply. The plan also supports SME assessments of data management maturity, exploration of bringing data assets onto balance sheets, and encouragement of data property registration.

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