As the government continues its expansive reform agenda with Vision 2025, Sri Lanka’s economy is expected to record moderate improvements in 2018.
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Articles & Analysis | Awaited reforms to boost stock trading in Myanmar from The Report: Myanmar 2018
With the new Yangon Stock Exchange (YSX) established as recently as October 2015, Myanmar’s capital markets remain at a very early stage in their development. As such, the bourse is subject to many of the pitfalls often found in a low-volume, frontier industry, but there is also a wealth of potential. With access to finance being one of the...
Articles & Analysis | New reinsurance programmes bolstering coverage against natural disasters in emerging markets from The Report: Myanmar 2018
While advanced economies generate the vast majority of insurance and reinsurance business, emerging markets are posting higher rates of growth. Complementing this underlying trend is a strong and expanding interest in catastrophic risk, which by nature tends to pertain to emerging markets. This is coming alongside fast-paced, sector-...
Articles & Analysis | New laws align Myanmar's financial services sector with international best practices from The Report: Myanmar 2018
Over the past 15 years there has been a steady stream of new sector regulations, with each piece of legislation aligning Myanmar’s banks closer to international standards and best practices. This began in 2002 with the Control of Money Laundering Law, an important first step towards containing this problem. It also signalled to the...
