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Euromoney’s borrower awards 2007 |
| Overall awards | |
| Best sovereign/supranational/agency borrower | Best bank borrower |
| Best insurance borrower | Best ABS |
| Best CDO borrower | Best covered bond issuer |
| Best corporate borrower | Best high-yield/leveraged finance borrower |
| Latin America regional awards | |
| Best sovereign borrower | Best corporate borrower |
| Best financial borrower | |
| Central & Eastern Europe regional awards | |
| Best sovereign borrower | Best corporate borrower |
| Best financial borrower | |
| Asia regional awards | |
| Best sovereign borrower | Best corporate borrower |
| Best financial borrower | |
| Middle East and northern Africa regional awards | |
| Best borrower | |
With just a handful of regular sovereign borrowers and unpredictable issuance levels from investment-grade credits in Asia, much of the excitement in the region’s bond markets is reserved for the high-yield sector which, although still small, is beginning to grow rapidly, dominated thus far by Chinese and Indonesian issuers.
The story of the past 12 months was the high-yield bond issues from mainland Chinese real estate plays: the sector raised some $1.6