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Asiamoney PLUS highlights the latest job changes from across the fixed income and financial markets.
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The Italian general election has given investors an expensive lesson. Opinion polls, exit data and other arcane measures are no longer enough to guess which way the political wind is blowing.
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Fiasco, the Italian word used in several European languages to describe a chaotic failure, seems an apt description for the Italian elections. Uncertainty in Italy is one thing, but in this crisis, it’s the contagion that counts.
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India’s government plans to open up its banking system, granting licences to a swathe of privately-owned banks in an attempt to boost lending in rural areas. This is a good plan, but it would be even better if regulators kick-started a domestic securitisation market at the same time.
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The success of Bharti Airtel’s bond may breathe life into the debt-ridden telecommunications industry by raising foreign investor appetite for other telco companies amid a thirst for Indian corporate credit.
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Top 3 Asia (ex Japan) Local Currency DCM Transactions - 2013 YTD
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China's flash manufacturing PMI fell to its lowest level in 4 months in February, with the output index also hitting a 4-month low -
Top 3 Asia (ex Japan) G3 DCM Transactions - 2013 YTD
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—Emmanuel Dray, global head of equity flow trading at BNP Paribas in London, on the rotation from fixed income products to equity products.
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The Bank of England and the People's Bank of China are close to signing an agreement on a renminbi/sterling swap arrangement
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Chinese interbank bond regulators are expected to as much as double quotas this year for onshore companies looking to issue offshore as the latest effort to promote renminbi internationalisation.
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Top 3 Asia (ex Japan) High Yield DCM Transactions - 2013 YTD
