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Vietnam’s equity capital markets is peculiar in that doing an IPO and listings are viewed as two separate events, leading to companies, particularly state-owned ones, often being in no hurry to start trading their shares on the stock exchanges. There’s no simple solution, but a shake-up of the market is well overdue.

Last week the Ranger had a veritable rodeo of excitement after being recruited to help with GlobalCapital’s emerging markets coverage and embarking on a thrilling adventure across the EM spectrum.

In an interview with GlobalMarkets Asian Development Bank (ADB) president Takehiko Nakao reveals the strategic thinking behind a surprisingly high degree of cooperation between the Japan and US-dominated ADB, based in Manila, and the China-dominated Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB), based in Beijing

Leading voices from across the emerging world have lined up this week to talk up the benefits of free and unfettered trade — and bemoan the increasingly protectionist rhetoric they see emanating from politicians in the struggling West

The vice-president of the New Development Bank, Paulo Nogueira Batista Junior, tells GlobalMarkets how his institution is lending on projects and issuing green bonds in line with the increasing concern with environmental issues

The Philippines' finance minister Carlos Dominguez tells GlobalMarkets how he plans to "rebalance" its relationship with China and carry out extensive economic reforms to attract foreign investment

Sri Lanka’s economy is slowly being wrestled back into shape, following the disastrous era of scattergun borrowing and spending that embodied the previous government. But, the country’s finance minister tells Global Markets, much remains to be done in order to clear a huge backlog of debt and toxic loans out of the financial system, and get the economy moving again

The world remains a divided realm, the chief economist of ratings agency Standard & Poor’s warned, with some countries rising and growing, and others facing years of steady decline

Eisuke Sakakibara, the former Japanese politician who earned the nickname Mr Yen for his aggressive control of the exchange rate, says he is worried that the appreciation of the yen is a sign that the impacts of the expansionary policies known as Abenomics are wearing off

Bankers in China have warned Emerging Markets that much of the debts taken on to fund China’s giant $1.8tr One Belt One Road programme could go bad, threatening another financial crisis

Stanislas Yassukovich’s Two Lives: A Social and Financial Memoir, in which he recounts his own life, as well as the lives of his father and the Eurobond market (of which he was a progenitor) might be a first of its kind. It is a bond man’s — and bond market’s — Bildungsroman, as well as a polemic against the state of banking and a klaxon sounding the end of capitalism as we know it.

The Western financial system could learn a thing or two about ensuring transparency in the primary debt markets by studying an approach adopted in China, according to the treasurer of the World Bank — while new technologies like blockchain could also help restore trust in the financial system