Basel III threatens to throttle trade finance

Trade finance is crucial to Asia’s developed and developing economies yet its onerous treatment under Basel III threatens to hurt intra-regional commerce. How serious is the threat and will the Basel Committee listen to Asia’s complaints?

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The Asian economy runs on trade: in 2010 its intra-regional commerce figures clocked in at a healthy US$2.5 trillion, according to the World Trade Organization. And the wheels of trade are oiled by finance – letters of credit, bills of lading and straight export finance enable goods to flow in a seamless fashion from the factories of the Pearl Delta to the shops of Manila and Bangkok.

But according to Standard Chartered Bank this vital part of the economy will be hit by Basel III – due to the

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