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  • This year, expect liquid loan markets, structured deals and credit derivatives, securitization, merger and acquisition fever, rapid privatization, and growing numbers of mtn programmes
  • Bond markets face one of the biggest changes yet as bankers prepare for the coming of the euro and with it the creation of a huge, pan-European capital market. It's going to change the way a lot of borrowers raise capital and broaden the outlook of European investors. In the meantime, borrowers, particularly corporates, have been taking advantage of liquid markets, low interest rates, and investors' increasing appetite for risk. By Peter Lee
  • As the fear of interest rate rises threatens virtually every market in the world from sovereign bonds to high-tech stocks to emerging market securities investors may no doubt be wondering where they can seek refuge.
  • Investment banks see Asia as the next big market, so the largest ones have all established derivatives operations in the main centres. That means fierce competition ­ but it's a fight for relatively thin demand. Regulators in some countries restrict use and local exchanges are undeveloped. But growth has come in surrogate markets and such instruments as covered warrants in Hong Kong. Antony Currie reports.
  • The governments of Asia have never trusted financial markets. They view stock exchanges as little better than Chinese gambling dens, and find it hard to comprehend that bond, foreign exchange and money markets are any less dominated by wild speculation. As a result, the regulatory and tax environment for financial markets in Asia is still rooted in the 1960s. Banking systems are rigged in a such a way that banks are forced to provide cheap finance for industry, and allowed little room to develop. The biggest Asian economies have progressed remarkably in technical and managerial competence in the past 20 years, but their financial industries remain appallingly backward.
  • At the Kazan Universal Exchange in the Tatarstan capital, 1,500 km east of Moscow, traders can find virtually anything for sale from flowers to furniture to plumbing supplies. But upstairs at the exchange itself, the one item they will be hard-pressed to find are corporate stocks.
  • With economic growth still running apace Asian economies are hard-pressed to maintain and develop infrastructure. Project finance deals, in an increasingly private-sector context, are hotly contested by banks, but countries in the region vary widely in their ability to undertake them. Gill Baker reports.
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  • Brokers' analysts in Asia have been arrested for taking their duties too seriously. But that's a minor reason for the poor quality of the region's research. Corporate disclosure is limited and accounting standards are poor. And analysts are young, inexperienced, harassed by overmighty corporate finance departments and intent on careers outside research. By Michael Steinberger.
  • For several months, lawyers have been fretting over the prospective introduction of Emu. Why? Christopher Stoakes explains.
  • Over the past two years, many Asian investors ­ from central banks to small Korean financial institutions ­ have suddenly become a driving force in international bond markets. Who are they? And what do they like to buy? Garry Evans reports.
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