Debt

Sitting on a half a trillion dollars of non-performing assets, India’s desire to lift growth should be enough to allow foreign investors to fully tap the country’s distressed debt market. However, there are two major impediments to change.

Despite aggressive pricing and historically tight yields, investors' appetite for Asia tech credit appears undiminished. It's an issuer's market for sure, but is it enough for a Xiaomi, Gojek, Traveloka or Tokopedia to take the bait?

China's bank capital issuers didn't really give a fig for the offshore markets in 2019. Will their attitude change in 2020?

Asia is finally awake to green and sustainable financing as banks amend their lending practices and encourage bond issuers to follow suit.

It could be one of the most exciting years ever for Asian frontier market issuance as Indochina gets into first gear.

Understanding what lies behind the mask is becoming ever more important as a wider variety of credits from across the region access the international bond markets.

Investors may need to display more cunning to navigate the Asian high yield bond markets during 2020 as the approaching Year of the Rat ushers in a heavy pipeline of redemptions.

After years as a closed economy, the central Asian republic sold a dollar-denominated benchmark in February. One bank followed in November and other issues are planned for next year.

Make hay while the sun shines appears to be the motto for Asia’s international bond markets in 2020 as investment grade issuers and insurance funds see greater value in longer-dated tenors.