THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 30 was as busy a day as Stephen Williams, head of debt capital markets Asia at HSBC, can recall in his career in the region’s bond markets. That day his bank was involved in four bond deals that demonstrated in their variety and the keenness with which investors received them the breadth of the emerging markets credit frenzy that has developed in the past few months. “Markets are on fire,” says another debt banker, “and I can’t see that changing before the end of the year.
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