This collection of essays offers a unique insight and overview of the secured transactions law in many of the most important countries in Asia, as well as reflections on the need for, benefits of and challenges for reform in this area of the law.
The book provides a mixture of general reflections on the history, successes and challenges of secured transaction law reform, and critical discussion of the law in a number of Asian countries. In some of the countries, the law has already been reformed, or reform is under way, and here the reforms are considered critically, with recommendations for future work. In other countries, the law is not yet reformed, and the existing law is analysed so as to determine what reform is desirable, and whether it is likely to take place.
First, this book will enable those engaging with the law in Asia to understand better the contours of the law in both civil and common law jurisdictions. Second, it provides analytical insights into why secured transactions law reform happens or does not happen, the different methods by which reform takes place, the benefits of reform and the difficulties that need to be overcome for successful reform. Third, it discusses the need for reform where none has yet taken place and critically assesses the reforms which have already been enacted or are being considered. In addition to providing a forum for discussion in relation to the countries in question, this book is also a timely contribution to the wider debate on secured transactions law reform which is taking place around the world.

Louise Gullifer is Rouse Ball Professor of English Law at the University of Cambridge.
Dora Neo is Associate Professor and the founding Director of the Centre for Banking & Finance Law at the Faculty of Law, National University of Singapore.

1. Introduction
Louise Gullifer, University of Cambridge, UK and Dora Neo, National University of Singapore

PART I
GENERAL
2. Lost in Transplantation? Modern Principles of Secured Transactions Law as Legal Transplants
Charles W Mooney, Jr, University of Pennsylvania, USA
3. Personal Property Securities Law Reform in Developed Jurisdictions
Anthony Duggan, University of Toronto, Canada
4. Secured Transactions Law Reform in Asia and Access to Finance: What can the UNCITRAL Model Law on Secured Transactions Offer?
N Orkun Akseli, University of Durham, UK
5. Secured Transactions Reform in East Asia: Progress and Challenges
Elaine MacEachern, World Bank Group, Financial Institutions Group Advisory Services (Washington DC), USA

PART II
CIVIL LAW JURISDICTIONS
6. Secured Transactions Law Reform in Civil Law Jurisdictions: Challenging Tradition, Facing Reality, and Embracing Modernity
Teresa Rodríguez de las Heras Ballell, , Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain
7. The Law of Secured Transactions in China: Comparison and Future Reform
Lebing Wang, University of International Business and Economics, Beijing, PRC.
8. Secured Transactions Law Reform in Indonesia: Fiducia, at a Crossroads
Ibrahim Assegaf, STIH Indonesia Jentera, Jakarta, Indonesia and Aria Suyudi, STIH Indonesia Jentera, Jakarta, Indonesia
9. Navigating the Patchwork of Secured Transactions Rules in Japan: Towards a Framework Conducive to Asset Based Lending
Megumi Hara, Gakushuin University, Japan
10. Banking the Unbanked: An Examination of the Personal Property Security Act of the Philippines
Anthony Amunategui Abad, Ateneo de Manila University, Philippines, David Kintanar Rosario III, Abad Alcantara & Associates, Philippines and Griselda (Gay) Santos, Financial Executives Institute of the Philippines
11. Korea: The Coexistence of Old and New Secured Transactions Law Regimes
Youngjoon Kwon, Seoul National University, Korea
12. Law Reform of the Secured Transactions Regime in Taiwan: Modernisation, Controversies, and Prospects
Andrew Jen-Guang Lin, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
13. Implementation of International Standards on Secured Transactions into the Thai Legal System: Possibilities and Proposals
Parawee Kasitinon, Thammasat University, Bangkok, Thailand
14. Secured Transactions Reform in Vietnam: Prominent Achievements, Experiences, and Lessons Learnt
Huyen Pham, International Finance Corporation (IFC), World Bank Group, Vietnam

PART III
COMMON LAW JURISDICTIONS
15. Secured Transactions Law Reform in Common Law Jurisdictions (Brunei Darussalam as an Example)
Louise Gullifer, University of Cambridge, UK
16. Bangladesh Secured Transactions Framework: Moving Towards a Reform
Marek Dubovec, Kozolchyk National Law Center, USA and Junayed Chowdhury, Vertex Chambers, Bangladesh and Vertex International Consulting, Australia
17. Secured Transactions Law in India: Suggestions for Reforms
M R Umarji, Indian Delegate to UNCITRAL Working Group VI on Secured Transactions
Law
18. Pakistan's Reform of Secured Transactions Law: Challenges and the Road Ahead
Marek Dubovec, Kozolchyk National Law Center, USA and Zahra Abid, Haidermota & Co, Pakistan
19. Secured Transactions Law in Singapore: Living with Untidiness
Dora Neo, National University of Singapore
20. Conclusion
Louise Gullifer, University of Cambridge, UK