Sri Lanka co-opts its banks (again) to kick start economic growth

The new government wants to get growth back to a level that befits the country’s promise. One key route is a moratorium on loans. The rating agencies loathe the idea, but the country’s leading bankers and economists give a broadly positive assessment.

Ready for growth

By First Metro Investment Corporation

ICBC: Global markets business heading towards better quality and efficiency

By ICBC

A Chinese Renaissance

By Huatai International

Why Warburg Pincus invested in a Singaporean mobile virtual network

Big brand private equity companies are opening their wallets for high-tech, low-asset companies riding off consumers unabated demand for mobile internet access. Singapore’s Circles.Life is the most recent recipient of their financial backing.

REIT regulation

The Philippine REIT experiment will start with Ayala Land, but challenges lay ahead

After years of regulatory horse trading with the market, one of the Philippines' highest profile companies is set to list the country’s first ever REIT. In what is seen as a huge shift in sentiment to the asset class, the country’s high-grade real estate market is, however, under strain from global economic shifts.

Ridesharing in Indonesia

Why Gojek’s small stake has big implications for Asean’s unicorns

Extending the ‘growth at any cost’ model is over, as backers call for investments that deliver profits faster. Gojek’s reported cash injection into Indonesia’s Bluebird has the potential to flip the script on the region’s biggest private companies.

Central Asia

AIX chief executive: "liquidity breeds liquidity breeds liquidity"

Timothy Bennett, CEO of the Astana International Exchange, talks to FinanceAsia about how his lessons learnt running the NZX will help get Kazakhstan's second stock exchange's engine running.

Capital market reforms

Exclusive: Pakistan’s SEC chairman goes public on his 2020 reform agenda

Aamir Khan was parachuted into the top job in mid-August and has since swept through the Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan streamlining and simplifying regulations. He spoke to FinanceAsia about his vision to re-ignite the country’s capital markets.

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