Should investors seek shelter on the frontier from the storm engulfing emerging markets? Yes say experts as long as they choose their country carefully.
As the 10th anniversary of the Global Financial Crisis looms large, the veteran Asia banker sees opportunity for profit in the emerging markets crash and is planning to expand in 'sexy' private markets.
The government is preparing sweeping changes to domestic bond market regulation as foreign investors dip into local currency corporate debt for the first time.
China’s acquisition of strategic stakes in three Belt and Road stock exchanges kicks off a fundamental shift in equities trading patterns.
Sri Lanka’s messy politics hampers higher economic growth and the reform of state-owned banks.
It has been a long time coming, but an inaugural international bond issue from Bangladesh is being stitched together and in green to boot.
Pakistan may be an emerging market country in name, but it remains a frontier market by nature.
In a wide-ranging interview, Sri Lanka's central bank governor explains how a new Liability Management Act should aid its debt management amid unsettled domestic politics and global financial markets.
Choijilsuren Battogtokh, head of Mongolia's budget committee, explains why better than expected economic data and a restructuring of the banking sector are improving the country’s credit metrics.
But the CEO of the Colombo Stock Exchange says the journey is more important than the destination.
The island nation may be a beautiful destination for tourists, but investors who piled into its maiden sovereign bonds could be forgiven for feeling a little travel sick.
The early investor in Asian warehouses used for ecommerce looks to extend the play to Vietnam where it says the sector is at an “inflexion point”; capital flows into the emerging market hit a record last year.
Investment has poured into the off-grid solar sector, which offers safe alternatives to kerosene lamps in emerging markets. However a rising flood of Chinese suppliers is crushing margins. Sharper analysis is needed to separate winners from losers.
IFC treasurer Jingdong Hua explains how institutional investors can help meet huge infrastructure needs – and make a profit.
Vietnam is back on investors’ radar screen with the launch of a record-breaking IPO. Can it avoid the pitfalls of 2007?
The US private equity firm has made a spirited job of its investment in a Yangoon-based, making a clean and profitable sale of the whisky brand to ThaiBev. A fillip for its fund-raising drive.
Khan Bank, KBZ, Commercial Bank and NDB Investment Bank take the plaudits as our Country Awards turn their attention to frontier markets.
As China's A-share market gets its long-cherished MSCI inclusion, the experience of Pakistan after being granted emerging market status shows index inclusion may not be all that.
On its last day of trading before being upgraded to emerging market status, Pakistan experienced a frenzy of trading — and an unexpected fall in prices.
The prospect of large investment in a country desperate to catch up with its neighbours is doing little to ease anti-Chinese sentiment.