Time for a trip? Frontier markets need developing

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Time for a trip? Frontier markets need developing

It was only a few decades ago that emerging Asian countries like the Philippines and Indonesia were small fry to the big global banks, and the occasional trip to Manila or Jakarta from foreign bankers was a moment of excitement away from the more established centres of Hong Kong and Singapore.

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