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Hawaii 2001: ADB 34th Annual Meeting of the Board of Governors
  9 to 11 May 2001, Hawaii Convention Center, Honolulu, USA
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Designing a New Financial Market Structure in Post-Crisis Asia - Policy Recommendations on How to Develop Corporate Bond Markets
8 May 2001 (1:00 p.m.-3:30 p.m.)

(Organized by the ADB Institute with the Asian Development Bank)

What are the most effective approaches?

The seminar will inform high-level policy makers on the most effective means to develop corporate bonding markets in bank-dominant Asian Economies. An analytical framework and policy recommendations developed by the Asian Policy Forum will be presented.

Discussion Topics

  • Facts about financial structure in Asian
  • Key differences between corporate bonds and bank loans
  • Features of regulatory systems for corporate bond markets and banking systems
  • Factors responsible for failures of banking systems and under-development of Asian corporate bond markets
  • Emerging issues of sound banking systems and strong corporate bond markets
PROGRAM/SPEAKERS
Time SpeakerPresentation
1:00 - 1:10 Masaru Yoshitomi
Dean, ADB Institute		Introduction
1:10 - 1:30 Dr. Nik Ramlah Mahmood
Director, Market Policy and Development Division, Securities Commission		Keynote Speech
1:30 - 2:10 Sayuri Shirai
ADB Institute Visiting Scholar and Keio University, Japan		Presentation of the Analytical Framework for the Preliminary Asian Policy Forum Report
2:10 - 2:30 Tan Khee Giap
Head, Central Banking Policies Research Unit, Nanyang Business School, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore		Recommendations from the Preliminary Asia Policy Forum Report
2:30 - 2:45 Panel Discussions

Jong Koo Lee
Director General, Financial Policy Bureau, Ministry of Finance and Economy, Republic of Korea
2:45 - 3:10 Richard John Herring
Vice Dean and Director of the Wharton Undergraduate Division and Jacob Safra Professor of International Banking, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
3:10 - 3:30 Open Discussion

Contact Us

For further information, contact Mr. Araki Megumi, ADBI, Japan, tel: (81-3) 3593-5516, fax: (81-3) 3593-5571, e-mail: maraki@adbi.org.
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