Market watchers are increasingly focusing on shadow banking risks in China, following last week's cash crunch. Mid-tier banks are especially vulnerable
Shuanghui's acquisition of US pork producer Smithfield Foods is the latest deal between the two countries to provoke political furor. It could test how well target jurisdictions distinguish between private and Chinese SOEs
Japan PM Shinzo Abe's so-called third arrow structural reforms largely disappointed. They come at a time inbound investors may be backing off due to currency volatility.
Mongolia’s Securities Markets Law will become effective on January 1 2014. It introduces provisions that will allow for the highly anticipated triple-listing of state-owned Erdenes Tavan Tolgoi
The deadline for India’s listcos to meet a 25% minimum public shareholding was June 1. The Securities and Exchange Board of India has taken swift enforcement actions to address non-compliant companies
Chinese bond offerings are increasingly incorporating credit enhancement structures to enable deals to go to market faster. But investors fear such deals do not offer adequate compensation for the additional risks involved
Rolta's high-yield bond has been described as the first true Indian corporate credit in the high-yield market. It may open the market for other Indian companies
Vietnam’s Nghi Son was the first refinery project to involve significant foreign investment. It included a mechanism that dealt with Vietnam's volatile currency
The partnership between China Construction Bank and VTB, Russia's second largest bank, signifies a tightening relationship between the two so-called BRICS
