currencies

John Woods, managing director at Citi Investment Management, talks to FinanceAsia about Modi, China, currency mismatches and the big three ratings agencies.

The facility will make available a maximum of Rmb350 billion to the ECB and up to €45 billion to the People’s Bank of China, and is an important step forward in the internationalisation of the renminbi.

The Korean won and Indian rupee are the most exposed to a worsening of the Greek crisis, according to rigorous research by Nomura. The Taiwanese dollar and Thai baht are least vulnerable.

Europe’s debt crisis is not necessarily a euro crisis, argues Commerzbank while on a roadshow to Asia, but it raises some tough questions.

The UK bank’s head of emerging Asia research, Peter Redward, looks forward to another tricky year for investors and forecasts an Asian bond sell-off.

Finance ministers and central bankers from the G20 nations achieved nothing at all last week, according to our readers.

Sinha joins from Barclays Capital as head of Asia-Pacific G10 FX strategy and will be responsible for calls on the Aussie and Kiwi dollars and the Japanese yen.

Our readers vote on which Southeast Asian country offers the best value for money.

Mahindra & Mahindra’s senior vice-president of corporate finance K Chandrasekar talks about how treasury supports a great brand.