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Derivatives are driving India's equity markets but the Reserve Bank of India has dragged its feet over allowing OTC derivatives in the money and forex markets. Aaron Chaze finds out why.

The continued fall of the US currency is giving central banks in the region that terrible sinking feeling as they try fruitlessly to prop up the greenback. Pauline Loong talks to bankers and strategists about the impact and outlook for bonds and equities in Asia.

Felix Ling aims to start up an insurance business in China but, as he tells Pauline Loong, he expects the Chinese to pick his brains in return.

Project finance bankers find that upstream and downstream oil and gas greenfield or expansion projects represent the best opportunities, reports Dominic Jones.

The transfer list

Where should investors be focusing their attention in Asia? North or south? At the second annual Asiamoney equity forum held at Hong Kong's Ritz-Carlton Hotel on November 20, six market players attempted to answer these questions and offered their expert opinions on trends, industries and cross-border investments.

In the leafy lanes of surrey

There is nothing fake about synthetic collateralized debt obligations in Asia. The fact is they are on the fast track to poster-boy status, thanks to the region's developing credit derivatives market. Roy Chew reports.

After more than two decades of iron-fisted rule, Mahathir Mohamad has finally stepped down. Unsurprisingly, the unchallenged leader of Malaysia maintained his confrontational style right up to the final weeks of his premiership, continuing to irritate the United States, delight the hardliners, and grab front-page coverage. But love him or hate him, Mahathir was the devil the financial markets knew. He didn't like globalization and he didn't like hedge funds. And he let the world know it – just ask George Soros. But domestically, he was business-friendly – and the business world knew it.

Abdullah Badawi is known as the Mr Nice Guy of Malaysian politics. But he will need to add grit to his charm if he is to harness investor confidence by winning back the ground lost to the Islamic party, Pas, in 1999. Pauline Loong was in Kuala Lumpur taking the political pulse as well as assessing Malaysia's chances of becoming the global centre for Islamic finance and the opportunities for international players.

Return on equity and other traditional metrics can be misleading or distorted, says Bill Pieroni*.

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