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The flood of Chinese IPOs in the 1990s skewed the focus of investment banks in Asia towards ECM. With the near demise of this business, banks face the taxing problem of finding an appropriate balance between ECM, DCM and M&A.

By 2015, the establishment of the Asean Economic Community will lower trade barriers between countries in southeast Asia. The agreement will bring opportunities for increased trade and investment, but for Thailand it also means that in less than three years the country will need to grapple with growing competition from the rest of the Asean region.

One of the most important political and economic breakthroughs for the Philippines came in October last year when president Benigno Aquino finally agreed to a framework for peace with the Moro Islamic Liberation Front, the Muslim rebel group in Mindanao. It is hoped this will lead both groups to a final peace pact this year and allow for more inclusive economic development throughout the country, bringing thousands more people out of poverty. According to Standard Chartered, peace and political stability in Mindanao could add 0.1% to GDP growth at the end of 2013 and 0.3% by 2018. For the Philippines, the stars are finally aligned.

“When you are getting 6% in high yield, something somewhere has gone horribly wrong” An investor doesn’t like what he sees in credit

With Mexico in, market could rival Brazil’s; Peru undertakes capital markets reform.

Following the second star to the right until morning might be wiser than listening to many central bankers. They may have put us all on a road to nowhere.

It is not just the capital markets that are looking up.

Someone always benefits from a crisis. And in the crisis-torn world of banking, the PR community is having a busy old time of it. Few, perhaps, are as busy as Giovanni Sanfelice of the London office of Barabino and Partners.

Domestic Chilean market seen as saturated; Colombia the prime initial focus.

In the ledger of economic recovery, reasons to be optimistic are neatly balanced by reasons to be pessimistic.

January 2014 targeted for adoption; Moody’s boosts sovereign to Baa2.

Prompted by high liquidity and yield hunger, but appeal might be dampened by rising developed markets.