KUALA LUMPUR: The establishment of Asean Trading Link by Asean exchanges this month will be a catalyst for further fund inflows into South-East Asia and increase the region's attractiveness as a bigger capital market bloc, rivalling more established and bigger ones in Hong Kong, China and India.
For a start, the Asean Trading Link, to be launched in the middle of this month, will connect the stock exchanges of Malaysia and Singapore, with Thailand to be connected in August. Future partners include Indonesia, the Phillipines and Vietnam.