IFR Asia Asian Development Bank Roundtable 2015: Where are Asia’s capital markets heading?

IFR travelled to Baku, Azerbaijan, in early May to host a full house of around 200 delegates at a luncheon seminar during the Asian Development Bank’s annual meeting. It is the third year running that the ADB has featured an IFR panel on its official knowledge-sharing programme, and the 2015 vintage saw a high-level panel discuss Asia’s transition from a bank-dominated financial system to a mature capital market economy. Panellists debated the implications of tougher bank capital regulations on Asian credit growth, as well as the significance...Read more

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IFR Asia Asian Development Bank Roundtable 2015: Roundtable participants

IFR Asia High-yield bonds Roundtables 2015: Participants Rufat Aslanli Republic of Azerbaijan Rufat Aslanli is chairman of the State Committee for Securities, responsible for the regulation of all securities, exchange and capital markets activities in Azerbaijan. Before the creation of the SCS in November 2008, he was deputy chairman of the National Bank of the Republic of Azerbaijan, the country’s central bank. Aslanli started his career as an economist and was appointed head of the central bank’s monetary-credit policy and currency regulation...

IFR Asia Asian Development Bank Roundtable 2015: Part 1

IFR ASIA: Welcome. Let’s kick things off with the state of play in Asia’s banking sector. Where are we in terms of meeting global regulatory requirements, and how is that affecting lending? ARUNDHATI BHATTACHARYA, SBI: Regarding the requirement for capital, yes, we are in a country that is a little bit capital deficient if you look at the Basel requirements. Now how do we go about raising that capital? In respect of the public sector banks, we will need a capital raise, but we also have a lot of non-core assets that we can sell or list. We...

IFR Asia Asian Development Bank Roundtable 2015: Part 2

ARUNDHATI BHATTACHARYA, SBI: Of course I don’t agree that we don’t have a sound banking system! If you look at India, one of the reasons for the large amount of NPLs was the fact that we had a large amount of infrastructure built in the country at a particular period of time. And all of the heavy lifting was done by the commercial banks. They had 10-year money, and as a result all of this funding was done on a 10-year basis, with the expectation that repayments would happen in an average time of 7½ years. Now you cannot have 30-year assets...

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