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  • Overall rankings To obtain the overall country risk score, Euromoney assigns a weighting to nine categories. These are political risk (25% weighting), economic performance (25%), debt indicators (10%), debt in default or rescheduled (10%), credit ratings (10%), access to bank finance (5%), access to short-term finance (5%), access to capital markets (5%), forfaiting (5%).
  • If much-needed domestic bank consolidation ever gets off the ground in Taiwan, those banks that have brought successful subordinated debt issues to the market might be the most likely consolidators. Successful issues are a sign of confidence on the part of the market in a specific bank, and last year Taiwanese banks emerged to test their popularity.
  • LDI Debate: Bridging the void
  • Bond investors are starting to clamour for extra protection as buyout risk increases.
  • Ucits III opens the door to sustainable growth of single-stock futures. Over the past five years the exchange’s USF market has grown by an average of 57% a year, and there may be more to come.
  • The financial rehabilitation of Korean chipmaker Hynix offers salutary lessons for the region. Once the company was an embarrassment that an entire country wanted to go away. Now its creditors will reap a bonanza from a deal that they never even wanted. Chris Leahy reports from Seoul.
  • Latin America’s infatuation with the perpetual bond market shows no signs of slowing down. Metrofinanciera, one of Mexico’s biggest mortgage lenders, is the latest corporate to reveal its interest in issuing a perp. The company’s chief executive, José Armando Guzmán González, says that he is mulling over the idea but declines to provide further details.
  • Guillermo Nielsen: An insider's account
  • Regional rankings To obtain this ranking, the overall global country risk results were broken down by region. In addition, Transparency International’s Extended Corruption Perception Index was combined with the overall ranking to create a score out of 105. This combined total was then scaled down to a score out of 100. The difference in ranking and overall score between the original ranking and that incorporating the CPI data has been incorporated in the results. View full methodology
  • The buy back programmes of many emerging economies have narrowed spreads to where they scarcely match the risk. Domestic issues are an alternative, especially where currencies look strong.
  • It takes just one statistic to indicate what a force Citigroup is in Asia. The franchise (including Japan) is the 40th biggest financial institution in the world on a net income basis. Even excluding Japan, Citigroup does business in 16 countries in the region.