Asia Pacific

Rabobank Nederland may sell as many as five tranches in its Samurai issue this week. The triple-A rated bank is marketing fixed and floating rate tranches with a five year maturity as the core of the transaction.

Emerging economies shouldn’t seek to emulate China’s state-led growth model which is unsustainable and in need of reform, regional politicians and academics have warned

Human rights groups have published details of systematic torture and execution of unarmed protestors by Uzbek authorities six years ago

Further policy action will be required to deal with strong inflationary pressure, a senior Chinese central bank official warned

A top Chinese official told Emerging Markets that China is in intensive talks about joining the EBRD, but the bank’s president denied that such a politically sensitive prospect is on the table

Human rights campaigners have warned the EBRD about a renewed anti-democratic clampdown by Turkmen president Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov

Kazakhstan’s relative transparency and sound fiscal management should enable it to become a regional powerhouse, but it needs to diversify away from commodities, one of the country’s leading economists told Emerging Markets

Volkswagen made its debut in the dim sum bond market at the start of the week, raising Rmb1.25bn ($192.1m) that showed the increasing diversity, and ravenous demand, of the dim sum investor base.

Caterpillar could become the first foreign company to make a return trip to the dim sum bond market, after a series of meetings with investors in Hong Kong this week.

The Swedish National Housing Financing Corporation reestablished itself in the yen market this week, printing a triple tranche trade that it hopes will allow it to build out a curve and diversify products in the country, treasurer Per Tunestam told EuroWeek.