Trend Financial size and depth expand across the six growth markets

Summary

This trend describes the six Southeast Asian growth markets in the report - Cambodia, Indonesia, Lao PDR, Malaysia, the Philippines and Vietnam - performing unusually well on financial scale. Rapid growth combined with expanding financial activity lifts the group above other developing economies in the Economic Performance and Financial Size and Condition subcategories. All six sit above the developing-economy average on Financial Size and Condition, with Malaysia and Vietnam furthest ahead. The advantage is clearest in the larger and more diversified economies of the group rather than spread evenly. Access to finance lags behind, since half of the six fall below the peer average on that measure.