With the latest waves of COVID infection appearing to peak in Asia, countries are tentatively announcing their intentions to reopen. How realistic are re-openings in Asia? Deutsche Bank’s Asia research team attempts to answer this question.

As the Philippines heads towards its national elections in May 2022 and grapples with Covid-19, flow highlights the country’s resilience and potential for those investing in and trading with ASEAN’s second largest market

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00:00We are getting that activity number out of China for the firsttime since the most recent outbreak. Right. And that outbreak happening sort ofin the latter half of July. So what can we expect in terms of the risks and the upside for that latest set of numbers.Yeah as you mentioned in terms of the outbreak to place at the towards the end of July. So but having said that though we areexpecting the those retail numbers as well as investment numbers and production to slow down and DAX should actually be aforeshadowing a much slower growth momentum in the third quarter of this year. We're expecting growth to slow down as far assequential growth is concerned to zero point seven percent in third quarter for one point three percent in second quarter.What can we see in terms of China's monetary policy and perhaps a divergence from other central banks across Asia.Yes. As far as the PBS is concerned we are expecting PBS to cut its policy rate by 10 basis points in September. In fact...

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Issuers in Asia are making a beeline for funding based on environmental, social and governance (ESG)-related objectives, and are being drawn to the reputational and long-term cost efficiencies to result from adopting a sustainable business strategy.

“There is not a major corporate across the region which isn’t examining what they are doing, how they are transitioning and what investments they need to make [to facilitate that transition],”said Jonathan Drew, managing director, ESG solutions, global banking at HSBC.

He explained that to do so, companies are assessing risk, considering how to enter new sectors and ultimately shaping longer-term plans to achieve lower emissions.

The demand for green securities is showing no sign of abating, with measurement methodologies and standards around such instruments being developed in line with demand. The trend is evident in the emergence of a green premium, or ‘greenium’, which investors have begun to...