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Bond Market Development in Emerging Asian Economies. Edition No. 1
VDM Publishing House, June 2009, Pages: 124
The crash of stock markets and the credit crunching
by the banking sector during the 1997 Asian Financial
Crisis have been the catalyst for bond market
development in many crisis-affected developing Asian
countries. Asian governments started to issue more
bonds to finance economic recovery and restructuring
of banks and firms. Corporate sector relied on
corporate bond issuance as the only safety valve to
overcome business losses, liquidity problems and
financing of strategic investment projects,
when access to banks’ credit line and equity market
were limited. Moreover, the crisis has highlighted
the problems of maturity and currency mismatches.
Sovereign and corporate borrowers that depended on
external debt financing before the crisis have found
themselves in trouble because exchange rate
depreciation has increased their debt burdens.
Issuance of bonds denominated in domestic currency
will thus help to overcome this exchange rate
risk. Banks started to issue long-term bonds
(liability in their balance sheet) to match with
their long-term asset (bank loans granted) and thus
overcome the maturity mismatch between short-term
deposits and long-term bank loans.
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