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We are setting out the rationale for the choices made in our Country Awards starting with the winners from Bangladesh, Cambodia, Hong Kong and Hong Kong (Chinese financial institutions).

All the winners from Bangladesh, Cambodia, Hong Kong and Hong Kong (Chinese financial institutions).

The government is speeding up development, so is it the right time for foreign investors to come back?

Livi VB, SC Digital Solutions and ZhongAn Virtual Finance are the first three applicants to win a virtual bank licence in Hong Kong. And they are using fintech to control the risk.

Milestone action, including fines totalling $100 million, against UBS, StanChart, Morgan Stanley and Merrill Lynch, come as city battles to maintain its cachet as a listing destination.

Sovereign picks perfect window to raise international debt before politics shift back to the forefront of investors' minds and the emerging markets rally runs out of steam.

Limited supply has caused fixed income investors to pile into the oil refining company’s $900 million dollar bond – the country's largest non-bank issue in over three years.

On the back of a buoyant market, Manila doubled what it raised from a similar dollar bond sale in 2018 and was the year's first Asia sovereign borrower out of the blocks.

The city state of Singapore is taking steps to improve retail safeguards following a spate of defaults in its bond market. But is there more stress to come?