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India is on track for a record year of IPOs. Global tech giants continue to plough capital into a fast-growing consumer economy that is investing heavily in ensuring it’s a major player — along with the US and China — in an AI-first world
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  • China is where it's at in green finance in 2016. Its brand new domestic green bond market has zoomed to be the world's biggest in no time, and it has become the first country to produce a comprehensive plan for greening all aspects of finance. Mutual investment between China and the West is set to rise, though some have qualms about funding 'clean coal', reports Julian Lewis.
  • Given the scale of the task at hand, few should begrudge Prime Minister Abe more time to meet the objectives of his courageous programme to rejuvenate Japan’s moribund economy.
  • In theory, the Bank of Japan’s gargantuan asset buying programme, which forms a central pillar of its quantitative and qualitative easing policy, should transform international capital markets by forcing Japanese investors overseas en masse. But as so often is the case in Japan, theory and practice are very different things.
  • Given the low cost of debt, sluggish domestic growth and poor demographic trends, it is inevitable that international M&A will continue to increase as Japanese corporations’ management looks for growth beyond Japan to boost returns and growth prospects. This is good news for debt markets, which have also been boosted by an increase in the amount of share buy-backs.
  • Despite the problems that negative interest rates bring to a banking sector, Japan’s financial institutions have more to gain from a stronger economic environment than they have to fear from monetary policy. Given the progress they have made in strengthening their capital bases they appear well placed to see out such unhelpful policy, even if it lasts for longer than many hope.
  • Established in 2011 as a means of providing borrowers with easier access to a marginally more restricted investor base than the Samurai market, the Tokyo Pro-Bond market has had mixed fortunes in its five year history. While it has attracted a diverse range of borrowers, overall volumes have perhaps not lived up to expectations. The Tokyo Pro-Bond market has, however, firmly established its credentials as an alternative to the Samurai market, and market participants remain optimistic about its long-term prospects. Participants in the GlobalCapital Pro-Bond roundtable were:
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