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The outlook for Asia Pacific sovereigns in 2022 is stable as growth recovers and debt flattens; rebuilding of buffers will determine the pace of credit recovery, according to Anushka Shah, vice president-senior analyst, Sovereign Risk Group, Moody’s Investors Service.
Local-government financing vehicles have been one of the fastest growing sectors for G3 bonds. Fitch Ratings’ international public finance team’s Terry Gao, Samuel Kwok and Ark Huang reveal their outlook for this sector in 2019.
Dominique de Villepin, former prime minister of France and frontman for UCRG, a pan-Asian credit ratings agency, tells FinanceAsia that the world has not learned the lessons of the 2008 financial crisis.
Increasing levels of debt may pose serious risks to sovereign creditworthiness in some of the region’s key economies, explains KimEng Tan of Standard & Poor’s.
Terry Chan from Standard & Poor’s explains why the overall negative ratings bias on Asian corporates, financial institutions and insurance entities may continue into 2013.
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.
