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No fewer than five euro benchmark bond issues achieved an average score of nine or above in BondMarker voting in the third quarter. Voter preference was heavily weighted towards the long end of the curve: four of the five top-scoring deals of the quarter had tenors of 10 years or longer and two were longer than 30 years. -
The governor of the People’s Bank of China calls for capital controls to be scaled back, Hong Kong’s chief executive says the city will expand its RMB business by increasing the level of cross-border fund flows, and RMB deposits in the UK grow in the second quarter.
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Myanmar may be in the middle of a crisis as more than half a million Rohingya flee anti-Muslim militants. But investors are willing to look past the humanitarian crisis and find opportunities in the frontier market.
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Who does Pakistan turn to in the event of a new liquidity crisis: to China or the IMF? Widening trade and current account deficits and dwindling FX reserves could mean the South Asian country has to make up its mind sooner rather later
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Big questions remain around how China’s ambitious Belt and Road Initiative will be financed. But experts tell GlobalMarkets the answer, or at least part of it, may be in asset-backed securitization — with Indonesia making some headway recently and China gearing up for some action.
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Debt owed by India’s 29 states has doubled over the past five years to $304bn, triggering calls by analysts on the central government to impose regulations or face the danger of following China down a path of over-indebtedness
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Is Afghanistan finally turning the corner? The desert country, a crossroads between Central and South Asia, has for so long strived for stability and security and found neither
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The BondMarker voters have spoken. The results are in for last week's solitary benchmark from Ireland.
