This once isolated country is now one of the world’s hottest investment destinations
Dear friends and colleagues:
Being bullish on Myanmar is a cliché these days. However, I thought I’d share some notes from a recent trip to Yangon—it’s a good conversation starter at the very least. More…
Number of loans granted in Cambodia has been increasing 30 percent per year
Global financial fragility causes headaches for the world’s economic think-tanks as they try to find flexible, sustainable resolutions. More…
Japanese banks considering to offer a $900 million bridge loan for Myanmar
TOKYO—When the world’s top economic policy makers converge in Tokyo later this week, a prominent agenda item alongside the euro crisis and global slowdown will be debt relief for rapidly reforming Myanmar. More…
Old Bank Note
Commercial banks in Nepal have shown some aggression in lending over the last two months.
Banks’ loan disbursements had remained slow in the first six months of the current fiscal year due to suppressed credit demand.
Both deposits and credit grew by around 20 billion rupees (US$390 million) in the last two months, according to Nepal Bankers’ Association (NBA). More…
