A few other financial institutions quickly noticed a lucrative business and became involved ... Asian finance will also have to tackle two other significant challenges. First is the region’s ...

Many factors may have contributed to the onset and spread of the Asian crisis, but there is a growing consensus that the main ingredient was financial fragility. This involved four related aspects.

Fully functioning local currency bond markets have been an aspiration in Asia for decades, with the dangers of relying on offshore US dollar funding brought into stark relief back in the dark days of ...

We spoke with Supavud Saicheua, Head of Economic Research at Phatra Securities, about Thailand’s role in the Asian financial crisis. In our conversation, Supavud discusses the economic and financial ...