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The Taiwanese financial group is voted best for corporate governance in the survey, with Galaxy Entertainment and Sun Hung Kai Properties following in second and third places, respectively.

The UK's latest supplicants to China are far more humble than its first. Peter McGill reports.

The new government is keen to enhance the country’s infrastructure, as a means of revitalising its economy to counteract slipping commodity prices. Ben Power reports.

Bankers and companies have hailed the Free Trade Zone in Shanghai as a progressive step. Dig a little deeper, however, and it’s hard to assess its potential – principally because so little has been revealed. Ian Driscoll reports.

ASIAMONEY posed a set of debt strategists the following question: Is this a good time to buy more Asian high yield debt?

Asiamoney PLUS highlights the latest job changes from across the fixed income and financial markets.

In an attempt to encourage more transparent credit markets and funding for SMEs, China has introduced pilot programmes promoting asset securitisation. It’s a good way to help diversify risk away from banks and into the capital markets, but a lot more needs to be done to make it truly effective. Joti Mangat reports.

With the recent European Central Bank rate cut driving yields down, yield hunting investors are willing to take on the more volatile world of emerging market currencies. Supranational and agency issuers should take advantage of the opportunity their high credit quality offers to get as much done in these markets as they can, while they can.

Even though it wasn’t technically a bail-in, the restructuring of Co-op Bank serves as an example for how to formulate a bondholder-driven bank rescue. The only problem is that the lessons we have learned are hard ones — that forcing losses on bondholders is fraught with difficulty, and that the Co-op template can only really work for small banks.

The high yield market has a new risk: long-dated bonds. Unitymedia's daring €475m 15 year deal opened a new frontier for the high yield market. Bankers say not every company could issue that long, but you can bet they will think about trying to repeat the deal. Investors, however, should be on their guard.

A handful of Asian bond deals have been postponed in the past few weeks after they failed to attract enough investor demand, but that’s not a bad thing. It is this trial and error that will help provide much needed diversity to the universe of Asian bond issuers.

—Supurna VedBrat, managing director, co-head electronic trading and market structure at BlackRock in New York, on the lack of clarity surrounding timing between executing a trade on a swap execution facility and reaching a clearinghouse.