The current drive in Mongolia to promote growth and foreign investment appears likely to yield results, as a key breakthrough in a long-running dispute over the expansion of a mine will help act as a stimulus for a 10-year, $1bn sovereign issue in the coming months.
Recent attempts by the Central Bank of Myanmar (CBM) to reduce the use of dollars triggered an unexpected backlash in the form of dollar hoarding and black market trading, providing a timely reminder that managing the currency demands of a newly-opened economy is something of a learning curve.
Higher exports, supported by a robust industrial performance, took Vietnam’s GDP growth to a seven-year high in the first half of 2015, though trade imbalances and the risk of contagion from China remain a concern.
The ASEAN Economic Community’s (AEC) launch in 2015 is likely to have an impact on the region’s insurance industry. As the single market emerges, financial services will become borderless, products from one country will be sold in others, labour will be portable and companies will branch out into markets outside their home jurisdictions. However, the method and pace of...
Despite the talk of restrictions on foreign investment in insurance in Indonesia, international companies remain interested and active in the sector. A number of significant deals were completed in 2015, with others in the works, suggesting that the market’s potential outweighs the risk of ownership limits being put in place. For local insurance companies, capital pressures...
Already in operation for a year, Indonesia's national health insurance scheme (JKN) aims to provide cover to the entire nation by 2019, and private insurers are paying close attention. The JKN is expected to create opportunities for the private sector, as Indonesians become more aware of their insurance needs and potentially more inclined to buy supplemental cover. “The...
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