Tokyo: increasingly Asian sovereigns and corporates are funding themselves in Japan |
“The debt markets have been particularly interesting from the yen perspective,” says David Russell, executive director for debt capital markets at Nomura International in Hong Kong. “With the zero interest rate policy in Japan there have been a lot of good reasons to look at borrowing in yen,” he adds. “We have seen a few yen issues coming, but more important we have seen a really strong appetite in Japan for A credits, particularly driven by the post-1997 currency crisis.
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