China’s property development sector has set the dial to stability in the coming year but Moody’s believes tight regulatory controls on home buyers, restrictions on credit and weakening sentiment will all affect developers’ financial profiles.
Despite stabilising growth, a number of challenges cast a shadow over the prospects for credit worldwide. Rahul Ghosh of Moody's Investors Service discusses the outlook for 2017.
Tom Byrne, head of Moody’s Asian sovereign risk group, discusses the economic and policy challenges that China’s next leaders will face, and how they affect China’s credit profile.
Refinancing risk in China’s property sector has risen due to weak fundamentals and continued tight credit, with 11 of the 29 developers rated by Moody’s now facing liquidity pressure.
Moody''s has a stable ratings outlook for banks in Greater China - Hong Kong, the Mainland and Taiwan - as well as those in Singapore, and while the impact of the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) outbreak on the banking systems of all four may prov
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