Asia Pacific

Greentown China Holdings has sold one of the biggest dim sum bonds this year, taking advantage of the large cost savings available to print inside its US dollar curve.

China property developer Lai Fung Holdings is seeking consent from holders of its $200m 2014 bond for a range of amendments, as its seeks more flexibility to reach its growth targets, said bankers.

Indonesian state-owned oil and gas producer Pertamina will market its fourth US dollar bond this week as part of a newly created $5bn global medium-term note programme.

Western economies may never recover from the financial crisis. Their fast growth before was due to the happy confluence of some powerful one-off factors, says Stephen King

Senior officials at the ADB set out their ambition for more co-financing to fill Asia's massive infrastructure needs

Deep problems in Europe combined with the anaemic recovery in the US threaten to crimp growth in Asia, S&P’s chief economist warns

With a huge gap between infrastructure needs and funding getting bigger, a new bank could be the answer

India will return to a rate of growth of around 8% in three years, its finance minister tells Emerging Markets

Japanese money is going into developed markets rather than emerging ones for now, the Bank of Japan Governor says in an interview

The ADB's chief economist says the costs of negotiating and maintaining bilateral and multilateral agreements outweigh the benefits

The governor of the country's central bank tells Emerging Markets he aims to get Myanmar's capital markets in good working order by 2015