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  • Saddled with a sorry reputation, banks in Indonesia are finally beginning to fulfil a primary role—lending money to those who need it. The sector has come a long way since the Asian crisis, with foreign investors helping it along. Nick Parsons reports.
  • A tougher car market means Indonesian conglomerate Astra will be looking to boost other areas of its business. Chris Wright talks to the man in the driver's seat.in
  • Indonesia pledges to pay back IMF loan, while non-performing loans rise in the banking sector. Among corporates, HSBC bankrolls expansion plans and NTT DoCoMo eyes entry into the telecoms market.
  • India was quite unprepared for the turmoil that the Bombay Stock Exchange Sensitive Index (Sensex) experienced during May, as it fell nearly 20% from its all-time highs. With foreign institutions leading the sell-off, Asiamoney has sifted through the rubble to pick out the country's fast-growing, best-managed corporate investments that are well-positioned to ride out the storm.
  • Global banks have found it particularly hard to conquer Australia. Local success stories are few and far between, demonstrating that this competitive market demands on-the-ground attention, rather than remote control. Giles Parkinson reports.
  • The International Monetary Fund (IMF) warned Lebanon to take urgent action to revive its economy. The IMF said that any further delay in fiscal reforms would increase Lebanon ’s financial problems. Lebanon ’s debt-to-GDP ratio is on the rise and soon interest rates will increase further, hurting the economy. The IMF described Lebanon ’s macroeconomic and financial situation as highly vulnerable and said that the economy’s underlying financial imbalances have increased.
  • As always in the backstabbing world of investment banking, the knives were quick to come out when San Miguel's trailblazing corporate hybrid bond faltered. Rival investment bankers sneered that the prestigious combination of Citigroup, Credit Suisse, Deutsche Bank and HSBC as bookrunners were trying to price the bond too tightly with a 9% coupon, that the resulting order book of around US$750 million was far too small to support the deal, and that the poison pen letter offered a convenient excuse.
  • Suzuki Motor Corp plans to issue a ¥150bn ($1.32bn) convertible bond managed solely by Nikko Citigroup which will be the largest domestic CB for a decade.
  • Perhaps it's a good thing that my application for Bank of China shares came to naught. Yes, the shares are doing well, but the Great Equity Sell-Off continues to plague Asia's stockmarkets, and the bond market is hardly in better shape.
  • One further commitment has been received in syndication of the $300m three tranche loan for United Broadcasting Corp, after United Overseas Bank joined with a $50m take-and-hold commitment. The five and seven year deal is being lead arranged by Calyon, and KBC Bank earlier joined as a sub-underwriter. Bankers said they expected to receive further commitments this week. The five year tranche is worth $100m, while the seven year portion is split between an amortising tranche of $91m and a bullet loan.
  • ABN Amro is to develop a partnership with Shanghai-based Haitong Securities. The two firms have signed a memorandum of understanding.
  • Interest in the Chinese paper industry is heating up with reports of the sector's second private equity buy-out in two weeks. Affinity Equity Partners has been linked with the acquisition of a controlling stake in Tiger Forest & Paper Group, and is to invest a total of $187m in the company. Bankers said that financing has not yet been lined up and a number of banks are looking at arranging debt for the buy-out.