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Challenges continue to loom large for Korea's banking system. The government is under pressure to sell its stake in a number of institutions yet the buyers just aren't there. Instead, consolidation is looking a more attractive solution. H&CB and Kookmin have already merged. Who will be next? Fiona Haddock reports.

Asiamoney's deputy editor, Pauline Loong, has been writing about China for 22 years – since the earliest days of the country's modern integration with the rest of the world's markets. After speaking with some of the country's most powerful financial figures, from the central bank assistant governor to the heads of domestic banks and corporations, she believes the country is changing from the top down – and that there is growing evidence of a changing mindset from socialist doctrine to profit-led, market-friendly opportunism.

All eyes are on Hynix Semiconductor, as the company continues to sink. While bankers assert that this is one company the South Korean government can't afford to let go, the government itself is in a quandary. Should it let market forces prevail, or should it step in? Fiona Haddock reports.

All eyes are on Hynix Semiconductor, as the company continues to sink. While bankers assert that this is one company the South Korean government can't afford to let go, the government itself is in a quandary. Should it let market forces prevail, or should it step in? Fiona Haddock reports.

All eyes are on Hynix Semiconductor, as the company continues to sink. While bankers assert that this is one company the South Korean government can't afford to let go, the government itself is in a quandary. Should it let market forces prevail, or should it step in? Fiona Haddock reports.

Jose Isidro Camacho is considered to be the brightest prospect in Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo's cabinet. His glittering investment banking career started with a cum laude graduation from de la Salle, was followed by a Harvard MBA, then by experience in trading and corporate finance which culminated in heading the South-East Asian operations of Bankers Trust (BT). After BT was bought by Deutsche, Camacho decided to return home to the Philippines, accepting a post as Deutsche's country head. In February this year he took a rumoured 97% pay cut to become secretary of the department of energy, then in June he was promoted to head of the department of finance. He has quickly become one of Manila's most respected cabinet members. He talks to Matthew Montagu-Pollock.

Who's best in yankees, samurais or kangaroos? Who should your first choice be for domestic and international equity offerings? And more importantly, how much do they cost? Your questions answered in our annual capital raising poll. By Olivia Chow and Robert Law.

The Basel Accord governing international bank practices is due to be replaced. Jonathan Golin considers international reaction to this 'work in progress'.

Australia has stolen the M&A limelight this year. Two landmark dual listings were successfully completed, while a third fell apart spectacularly when the government refused to give it the go ahead. Could this structure be the answer to Australia's fears of becoming a corporate backwater? Fiona Haddock reports.

Australia finds itself in an unusual position as its bond markets prepare to be flooded by liquidity later this year. By Bina Brown.

As world markets weaken and the country's exports decline, Australia risks losing its competitive edge. Bina Brown reports.

The pile of assets on the desk of Laksamana Sukardi, Indonesia's new minister for state-owned enterprises, has multiplied to include the whole of the country's public sector and a substantial chunk of the private sector. Getting those assets off his desk again will not be easy. Sukardi is faced with two challenges following the decision by his party leader, president Megawati Sukarnoputri, to give him direct control of the Indonesian Bank Restructuring Agency (IBRA), the body charged with cleaning up the mess resulting from the 1997 financial crisis. He needs to raise more funds from the privatization of original state enterprises, and he needs to sell companies held by IBRA as a result of their debts to state-owned banks.