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Islamic bonds will help combat inflation and improve Pakistan’s worsening fiscal dynamics, as the regulator presses for sukuk to become the primary instrument in Pakistan’s debt markets.

The Hong Kong-based brokerage is voted the best Asia ex-Japan provider of equity research & sales in the region’s largest Brokers Poll, while Macquarie and Nomura retain their respective leads in Australia and Japan.

The European Council hopes to charge towards banking union later this week, “sprinting” ahead with plans to make the ECB the single supervisor. But it should not press on blindly: a well-designed banking union is far preferable to one thrown together in haste.

The EFSF is over the hump of what could prove a tough task of raising €11bn in the fourth quarter. But did it get the pricing right with its latest five year?

Japan’s residential mortgage-backed securities market was effectively taken over several years ago by a local housing agency. This has worked well for homebuyers, but not for banks. It is time the government pushed more banks back into the RMBS market.

The UK financier’s divestment in Bumi Resources would heighten concern among foreign bond investors who relied on the holding company to uphold transparency and corporate governance in the coal miner.

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The PBOC’s main priority is to keep price rises under control and only after that to look at growth, deputy governor Yi Gang said

The IMF/World Bank annual meetings in Tokyo ended with little agreement on what to do to solve the eurozone crisis – but with a lot of intriguing insights into where the world economy is going

Emerging markets continue to lure institutional investors looking for yield in a low-return world. But for some, there is just too much hype around the asset class

Japan hopes to boost its role as an investment hub for emerging markets, but recent developments may throw a spanner in the works

Myanmar is rapidly opening after 60 years of isolation. Despite the hype, it’s unlikely to be plain sailing