Asia Financial Services

One of the longest-running issues cited by capital markets watchers in Thailand is the issue of the country’s two derivatives exchanges, the Thailand Futures Exchange (TFEX) and the Agricultural Futures Exchange of Thailand (AFET).

Capital markets in Thailand offer investors a growing range of options with an increasing share of the country’s 65m citizens, adding to a more liquid retail investor base. Tax incentives to encourage initial public offerings (IPOs) have led to an equities market of many choices, and in recent years the fixed-income options have increased as well....

In many ways Thailand’s banking sector looks much like those of its neighbours: tightly regulated, well capitalised and highly risk-averse. Just as in other countries in the region, including Malaysia and Indonesia, the 1997-98 Asian financial crisis had a formative effect on bankers. Risk management has improved since the crisis, and central...

THE COMPANY: Advanced Info Service (ADVANC) was established in 1989 and is the largest mobile operator in Thailand, with a 46% subscriber market share and more than 97% nationwide coverage. ADVANC has been a publicly listed company on the Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET) since 1991. As of March 2012 the...

THE COMPANY: Oil Search (OSH) was incorporated in Papua New Guinea in 1929. It is PNG’s largest hydrocarbons producer and operates all of the country’s currently producing oil and gas fields.

THE COMPANY: New Britain Palm Oil (NBO) is a large-scale integrated industrial producer of sustainable palm oil in the Australasian region, based in Papua New Guinea.