Awards
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Asiamoney reveals its annual domestic bank and brokerage awards for Indonesia over the past year. Bank Central Asia stands out for its forward-looking strategy and smart expansion, while Danareksa continues to shine in both the country’s equity and debt markets.
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Asiamoney reveals its annual domestic bank and brokerage awards for Hong Kong over the past year. By avoiding the worst of the pitfalls during a tumultuous year, Hang Seng wins best bank. On the equity side, Kingsway impresses in a quiet year, while the formidable HSBC maintains its dominance of the debt market.
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Asiamoney reveals its annual domestic bank and brokerage awards for Thailand over the past year. We recognise Siam Commercial Bank’s responsive management, adaptable strategy and strong earnings. Phatra Securities continued to impress with good equity research and underwriting in bad markets, while Kasikornbank’s mix of bond and loan capabilities also stood out.
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Asiamoney reveals its annual domestic bank and brokerage awards for Australia over the past year. Westpac shines for a conservative lending strategy and proactive fund-raising, while Macquarie retains its stranglehold on the equity market. Westpac also fends off competition to take the best debt house award in narrow market volumes.
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Asiamoney reveals its annual domestic bank and brokerage awards for Japan over the fiscal year to March. MUFG stands out from a poorly-performing set of banks for its willingness to tackle bad assets and raise capital. Nomura continues to dominate the country's equity market and Mizuho fends off increasingly feisty competition to take the best debt house award.
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The Chinese investment bank flexed its debt market muscles by working on two large bond sales by state-owned corporates, extending its unassailable position in year-to-date league tables. The three largest deals in the equity markets all came from property companies, while M&A put on another good show. Asiamoney rounds up last week’s regional capital market activity. -
Asiamoney reveals its choices for best domestic bank, equity house and debt house in Singapore over the past year. UOB stands out for its stability and consistency, while DBS maintains its lead over domestic rivals to garner both of our trading house awards.
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Asiamoney reveals its choices for best domestic bank, equity house and debt house in Taiwan over the past year. Fubon Financial reaped the benefits of being less greedy than its peers to snatch our best bank accolade, and it impressed on the equities side, too. In terms of the debt market, KGI Securities was the clear-cut winner.
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Appetite for many structured products has vanished, leading banks to axe jobs over the past year. Damaged institutions are striving to rebuild trust with clients, constructing simpler and less-profitable instruments. Now commercial players and domestic houses are seizing the chance to cherry-pick talent, and the market should look radically different again by the end of this year.
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Despite its well-documented difficulties throughout 2008, UBS's wealth management operation sweeps the board in Asiamoney's largest ever Private Banking Poll.
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