Asia Pacific
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The withdrawal of western lenders from emerging Asia has left a shortage of funds for financing trade -
China’s leaders are grappling with how to overhaul an economic model in the midst of a slowdown
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Talk of creating a development bank serving the Brics nations could exert pressure on existing multilaterals
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The Russian mortgage market has grown quickly, lifting prospects for fledgling covered bond issuance. However, despite being Ucits eligible and in line with the European Covered Bond Council’s Label definition, the country’s legal framework is not yet aligned with western Europe’s.
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Several Asian sovereigns are able to offer local currency bond investors high returns and opportunities to diversify portfolios on the back of the region’s stable fiscal and external position, says Crédit Agricole.
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The door to Hong Kong’s dim sum bond market is now open to listed Taiwanese companies, but the market will only entice the corporates with tangible interests in the mainland.
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Asia may not be decoupled from the West but it has plenty of room for manoeuvre
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Experts this week hailed historic moves by Japan and China to buy each other’s sovereign bonds as a way of boosting the use of regional currencies
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Nobel Peace Prize winner Rajendra Pachauri warned in an interview with Emerging Markets that economic malaise threatened to undermine efforts to combat climate change
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A top IIF official slammed the implementation of new financial rules amid darkening economic data
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Finance chiefs in Manila were at odds this week over the risks to Asia’s economy and markets of western bank deleveraging
