The Last Frontier: Myanmar's 22-Year Quest for a Stock Exchange

  • Bourse opens on Wednesday with trading set to begin in 2016
  • Myanmar is working with Daiwa, JPX as economy opens up

Myanmar's Prospects Are 'Very Promising,' Hugger Says

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Starting a stock market is hard. Just ask Ryota Sugishita.

Two decades after his firm first laid the groundwork for an exchange in Myanmar, Sugishita found himself in a Yangon hotel ballroom in 2013, facing down skeptics in an audience of bankers, corporate executives and politicians.