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Bonds

The birth of a new market

By Peter Starr


As a child, Aun Porn Moniroth lived through a coup against Prince Norodom Sihanouk, the fall of Phnom Penh to Khmer Rouge forces and eventual liberation from Pol Pot. As a university student in Moscow, he witnessed Mikhail Gorbachev's perestroika, the fall of the Soviet Union and the initial economic ‘shock therapy' of Russia's first president, Boris Yeltsin. At 43, the secretary of state at the Ministry of Economy and Finance is now one of the youngest policymakers in the Royal Government of Cambodia. As far as economic and financial policy is concerned, he's also the most powerful

Bonds

Enhancing cross-border trading and settlement of securities

By Rodney Diola

Central banks and service providers, such as Clearstream, are committed to providing a better and more responsive infrastructure for cross-border investment in securities. Central banks ultimately benefit as they achieve greater efficiency, greater yield and reduced costs when it comes to their own cross-border trading of securities especially in Eurobonds, treasuries and other fixed income instruments.

Bonds

DBS Bank prices hybrid securities

By Chito Santiago

DBS Bank raised in May S$1.5 billion (US$1.15 billion) of non-cumulative, non-convertible guaranteed hybrid tier 1 securities in the form of preference shares to augment its regulatory capital base

Bonds

Kexim revisits Mexican peso bond market

By Chito Santiago

The Export-Import Bank of Korea (Kexim) tapped the Mexican peso bond market for the second time in three months when it launched a 1.2 billion Mexican peso (US$112.1 million) offering in January