ASIA-PACIFIC

摘要

China's economic slowdown put the brakes on bond sales from Asian banks in 2015, and more of the same may be in store for next year as sluggish asset growth blunts the need to bolster regulatory capital. G3 Asia bank issues (including Australia, but excluding Japan) fell 25% to US$77.58bn in 2015, according to Thomson Reuters data, dashing expectations of a bumper year after a 51% spike in issuance the previous year to US$103.3bn. "Regional banks have scaled down cross-border debt issuance because of their shrinking trade-finance business and slower growth in longer-term loans," said Stephen Long, managing director for the Asia-Pacific Financial Institutions Group at Moody's, in a recent report.