Asia’s investment needs are enormous and growing.At the same time, investors with large pools of savings both within and outside Asia are looking for quality investments that can provide stable, predictable returns. Financial markets play a critical role in matching the sources of finance with their productive uses and with infrastructure needs alone topping $800 billion a year, Asia and Pacific have some of the greatest potential for productive investments to increase growth and create good quality jobs. Reaching this potential ‘win-win’ scenario will be the subject of discussion of an eminent panel seminar today on the changing role of Asia in the financial markets at ADB’s Annual Meeting this week in Frankfurt. The panel will bring together thought leaders drawn from the public and private sector to look at where the opportunities and challenges for Asia lie today, where it is heading, and what are the key variables that may play out over the coming year. --Blogs.adb.org/blog