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India is actively seeking to outpace China in the years ahead. But its ambitious growth plans will be hard to achieve without radical expansion of its chronically underdeveloped manufacturing sector -
Japan’s enormous fiscal deficit could prompt a sudden sell-off of government debt, prominent former officials have warned
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With the global economy on the brink, all eyes are on China’s policymakers. But this time, they may be less willing to ride to the rescue
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Slower demand for commodities from fast-growing emerging markets shouldn’t prove disastrous for resource producing nations, leading economists suggest
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After its precipitous decline, some say the only way is up for Japan’s economy. Even still, the outlook remains bleak
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A Japanese public debt crisis could be closer than many market players imagine, informed observers suggest.
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South-east Asian economies are now better equipped to withstand volatile capital flows, according to regional policymakers
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In a stark admission, a senior Pakistani army general told Emerging Markets that current US-Pakistani divisions can’t be resolved
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A CROSS-section of six different types of investor, along with bankers from Crédit Agricole CIB’s trading, syndicate and research desks gathered to discuss the changing face of the covered bond market. The roundtable poignantly captured the mood of the market, just as the European Central Bank intervened to buy Italian and Spanish government bonds.
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As a piece of political theatre it couldn’t have gone better. The ICB recommends ring-fencing amid a flood of “casino banking” rhetoric, then in the very same week UBS illustrates exactly how careless investment banks can be. But arguments about bank regulation should look past the latest scandal.
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GDF Suez’s draw-down of some of its revolving credit facilities should make lenders question the pricing differential between drawn and undrawn funding. They also ought to have a good think about the value of relationships to the loans business.
