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  • Recent attempts to resolve a diplomatic dispute between China and the Philippines have failed but all is not lost, one of Philippines’ most senior officials has said
  • Mistakes made by microfinance institutions in India and elsewhere serve as valuable lessons to China as it seeks ways to provide basic financial services to millions of its poor
  • Finance executives cheered plans by Beijing, Tokyo and Seoul to buy each other’s bonds as another possible step towards internationalizing China’s currency
  • The Philippines’ finance minister Cesar Purisima told Emerging Markets his country is looking to capital markets to help finance its infrastructure funding needs
  • The withdrawal of western lenders from emerging Asia has left a shortage of funds for financing trade
  • China’s leaders are grappling with how to overhaul an economic model in the midst of a slowdown
  • Talk of creating a development bank serving the Brics nations could exert pressure on existing multilaterals
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  • Forum 2012 is MFA’s 18th annual managed futures and global macro strategies conference designed to bring managers and investors together for networking, education and business development. Forum 2012 is June 12-13 at The Fairmont Millennium Park, Chicago. Forum 2012 will feature “Meet the Manager” booths in an exhibit hall to facilitate opportunities for managers and investors to become acquainted and learn more about one another’s investment needs and solutions. Also new to the Forum 2012 schedule, an afternoon of “Manager Salons” for pre-selected managers to host open discussions with groups of investors, allocators and other managers. Two 45-minute roundtable discussions of four different strategies will be managed and led by a Forum 2012 sponsor firm.
  • Philippines, May 2012
  • Asia may not be decoupled from the West but it has plenty of room for manoeuvre
  • Experts this week hailed historic moves by Japan and China to buy each other’s sovereign bonds as a way of boosting the use of regional currencies