To see the digital version of this report, please click here. To purchase printed copies or a PDF of this report, please email gloria.balbastro@thomsonreuters.com. Asia’s local currency debt markets often struggle to compete with their far deeper international counterparts, and this year is no different, with US dollar debt issues from Asia again running at a record pace. Initiatives to deepen local markets and break down barriers within Asia, however, offer much hope for the future. The panel o

To see the digital version of this report, please click here. To purchase printed copies or a PDF of this report, please email gloria.balbastro@thomsonreuters.com.   IFR: I’m delighted to welcome everyone to the Thomson Reuters IFR Seminar, sponsored by Daiwa Securities, HSBC and Moody’s Investors Service. To kick off this debate, I’d like to ask each of our panellists to introduce themselves with a few words on how they see the development of Asia’s bond markets. Thierry de Longuemar, ADB: The

To see the digital version of this report, please click here. To purchase printed copies or a PDF of this report, please email gloria.balbastro@thomsonreuters.com.   IFR: Are there hurdles to overcome when that capital account is liberalised? What sort of dangers do we need to be aware of for offshore RMB? Tom Byrne, Moody’s: If I could take a step back, the offshore RMB is becoming a potential common currency platform for East Asia, and this is interesting because the Eurobond format really too

To see the digital version of this report, please click here. To purchase printed copies or a PDF of this report, please email gloria.balbastro@thomsonreuters.com.   Tom Byrne Moody’s Investors Service Tom Byrne is senior vice president and manager of the sovereign risk group for Asia Pacific and Middle East. Before joining Moody’s in 1996, he was the senior economist in the Asia Pacific department of the Institute of International Finance. Byrne has an MA degree in international relations with