Euromoney’s survey of risk experts shows the sovereign borrower on an improving score trend, which is already warranting a BB credit rating.

As Chinese bond markets are set to be included in indices for the first time, a big change is coming to the global financial system.

Neal Cross brought a range of unusual experiences to his job as chief innovation officer at DBS, one of the world’s most impressive banks for digital ideas.

Islamic finance has become too focused on getting arcane structures to be technically Shariah compliant, but a new initiative in Malaysia attempts to make Islamic finance socially positive once more – and to measure its success.

Over 20 years after microfinance first arrived in Kyrgyzstan, the largest players are transforming into banks to lower funding costs and increase financial inclusion.

Agricultural Bank of China

ICBC

Mandiri Sekuritas

Standard Chartered

Bualuang Securities

HBL

Emerging markets have experienced bouts of extreme volatility this year, prompted as much by rising rates in the US as by any domestic problems.

China Merchants Banks

These companies received the highest number of votes for their sector.

China Development Bank

These companies have been deemed as being most outstanding by having received the highest number of votes in their country/territory.

Overlooked during the early years of the Belt and Road Initiative, the region is now central to the entire project.

Siam Commercial Bank

Standard Chartered

Haitong International Securities

China CITIC Bank

Which banks in each country have excelled across a range of core banking activities over the past 12 months?

HSBC

UOB

First Abu Dhabi Bank

View the results of the 2018 Asiamoney China corporate and investment banking awards here.

DBS Vickers

The Asia's Outstanding Companies Poll is designed to acknowledge the listed companies that have excelled in areas such as financial performance, management team excellence, IR activities and CSR initiatives.

NH Investment and Securities

Five years after China launched its Belt and Road Initiative, its ambitions in the Middle East and Africa are beginning to go beyond infrastructure and oil.

Pakistan has long been as enamoured of the BRI as India is suspicious.

ICBC

Green Delta Capital Limited

CICC

HSBC

Saigon Securities

BOC International

Addis-Djibouti Electric Railway Line (Export-Import Bank of China)

Deutsche Bank

Standard Chartered

SBI Royal Securities

HSBC

Sberbank

Yuanta Securities

ICBC (Asia)

Sale of Cogent Holdings to COSCO Shipping (Credit Suisse)

Pakistan Water and Power Development Authority (Credit Suisse)

Affin Hwang

Standard Chartered

Standard Chartered

CICC

HBL

This summer Asiamoney took on the difficult task of finding the outstanding company in each country in the region.

Anaklia Deep Sea Port and Special Economic Zone (Anaklia SEZ)

Bank Misr

Anaklia Deep Sea Port and Special Economic Zone (Anaklia SEZ)

Standard Chartered

The Tropical Landscapes Finance Facility aims to source projects that transform lives and environments, and to securitize the project loans into bonds that will be sold to investors through the MTN markets.

President Tsai’s flagship foreign policy aims to redirect bank lending and investment away from China and towards southeast Asia.

Can Kazakhstan create an international financial centre in the middle of the steppes or is it just the latest central Asian pipe dream?

Highly leveraged and discomfited by escalating tariffs, the world’s most populous nation is holding steady in Euromoney’s survey, with a stronger risk profile than other Brics.

The southeast Asian FX market is on fire and it is set to get a further boost thanks to a combination of political and economic turbulence, a regulator committed to facilitating infrastructure investment and increased interest from non-bank market makers.