Investors are fretting about emerging markets again. Turkey is the front-burner concern at the moment, but what really is getting people’s attention is the prospect that the financial problems there could spread to other fast-growing but risky countries, the International New York Times reported. If history is any indication, that has the potential to quickly turn a local crisis into a global one. Or maybe not. Over the last week the value of the Turkish lira collapsed by more than 20 percent, shocking financial markets.

In a related story, The Irish Times reported that Turkey’s economic crisis poses a threat to European banks with business in the country. Spain’s BBVA, Italy’s UniCredit, France’s BNP Paribas, Dutch bank ING and Britain’s HSBC are the most exposed to Turkey and vulnerable to its free-falling currency. Analysts see as manageable even a worst case scenario which they deem unlikely at present – under which these banks would be forced to write off completely their local operations or exit the country.

Jet Airways India Ltd., the Mumbai-based carrier trading at the lowest since June 2015 on deteriorating finances and rising default risk on its debt obligations, said it is servicing all its loans on time in spite of surging fuel prices, Bloomberg News reported. “We are regular in all our payment obligations to all our banks and statutory dues including provident fund obligations. Our account with all the banks as on date is standard,” the company said in an emailed statement on Saturday.

The chairman of one of India’s biggest state lenders has urged the government to give up appointing top bank executives, arguing the move would boost management standards in a crucial sector struggling to recover from a bad debt crisis, the Financial Times reported. “Through a random process, which has some combination of the individual’s choice and the government’s wisdom, people show up,” Ravi Venkatesan, chairman of Bank of Baroda, told the Financial Times. “You could have a gentleman from a small bank suddenly thrust into an executive director role at a large bank.

It was not so long ago that investors were speculating just when Chinese regulators would allow the first onshore bond to default, the Financial Times reported. Now, the authorities are rushing to provide liquidity relief to calm a surge in bond market failures. The government must act because the defaults represent collateral damage in its broader campaign to rein in excess borrowing in the financial system. Private companies have suffered most, exposing vulnerabilities in a sector that is largely responsible for creating jobs in the Chinese economy.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is showing no signs of backing down in a standoff with the U.S. that rattled markets. As investors worry about Turkey sliding toward a full-blown financial crisis, the big question now is how far the pain may spread, Bloomberg News reported. “I call out to those in the United States. It is a shame. You are trading a strategic NATO ally for a pastor,” Erdogan said Saturday during a rally in the Black Sea port of Ordu, referring to the U.S. decision to sanction Turkey for its imprisonment of an American priest.

Indian authorities arrested a former managing director of Bhushan Steel Ltd on Thursday over an alleged fraud, after a probe found billions of rupees had been siphoned off by the firm’s founders from funds borrowed from state-run banks, Reuters reported. Neeraj Singhal, a member of the founding family, was presented before a court and will be held in judicial custody until Aug. 14, the Ministry of Corporate Affairs said in a statement.

Hedge funds have found a new way to profit from the sorry state of Australia’s housing market: playing off how much poorer consumers feel as their home values decline, Bloomberg News reported. Managers including Totus Capital and Sydney’s Regal Funds Management are heaping bearish wagers on companies from JB Hi-Fi Ltd. to Harvey Norman Holdings Ltd., betting discretionary retail stocks will wobble as the country’s decades-long property boom goes into reverse and people shop less.

Asian borrowers faced with rising refinancing needs are expected to actively engage bondholders ahead of debt maturities as they look to stave off default risks, Bloomberg News reported. That means getting investors to agree to discounted buybacks and maturity extensions, so-called liability management deals that can help firms cut funding costs. More issuers are in talks with their legal advisers to reassess their future financing arrangements and capital structures because of an uncertain primary market, according to law firm Linklaters LLP.

Chinese stocks haven’t been this volatile in years as traders struggle to decide whether the $6 trillion market has bottomed out, Bloomberg News reported. Buffeted by crosscurrents ranging from the trade war and rising defaults to monetary stimulus and cheapening valuations, the Shanghai Composite Index has recorded seven straight swings of 1 percent or more -- the longest such stretch since Chinese markets crashed in 2015.