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Real estate investment trusts have long been a success in Australia. The rest of the region may come to find this instrument attractive. Amid the investment hype, lawyer Michael Chin warns of the need for investor protection.

Securitization has come a long way since the concept gained popularity in Asia several years ago. It has now moved beyond the specialists' area and has become more broad-based. Capital-raising exercises in the region routinely feature securitized instruments. And these have become increasingly more exotic. Synthetic collateralized debt obligations (CDO), for example, now come in many varieties: hybrid cash/synthetic and inedex-linked and synethetic re-securitization. They can be single-tranche or multi-tranche. The single tranche may be static, lightly managed or fully managed. The static version may incorporate additional structures featuring reserve funds, step-up coupons and diversion of excess spread.

Mid-cap companies have outperformed every major index in Asia over the past three years, according to research commissioned by Asiamoney. Raymond Blondin, managing director of Finasia, a provider of data to financial institutions, argues the case.

BoJ takes a radical stance that some question, others admire.

A new sector of the Japanese securitization market has opened with the first residential mortgage backed deal by a Japanese regional bank. The deal is likely to prepare the way for other regional Japanese banks to securitize housing loan receivables. Dominic Jones reports.

Syndicated loans, equity, debt and M&A

Confidence returns as government gives comfort to lenders

The transfer list

The aircraft finance market in Asia is facing a long, tough haul, with asset-based aircraft finance and leasing particularly badly hit. By Dominic Jones

The government will wait for the performing loan market to evolve.

Louis Beckerling talks to the CEO of a listed Chinese company sitting on a pile of cash.

Established two years ago as the answer to Thailand's debt problems, the Thai Asset Management Corporation has been accused of everything from political favouritism to lack of transparency. Can its pragmatic new president Somjate Moosirilert put it back on track? By Ben Davies