Asiamoney Best Bank Awards

Orient Finans Bank’s year was, statistically speaking, a study in how to succeed even in the harshest of economic environments.

Timing is everything when it comes to investing. So United Bank’s decision to bet big on building digital platforms in the two years before the pandemic hit was apposite.

BNP Paribas’s relationship with India stretches back to 1860: since then, the lender has grown steadily, connecting with Indian businesses both inside and outside the country.

E.SUN Bank is second to none in serving the different segments of Taiwan’s banking industry. This year, it wins Asiamoney’s award for best domestic bank in Taiwan, as well as best for corporates and best for small and medium-sized enterprises.

Darshan Perera, chief executive of NDB Investment Bank, oversaw a stellar year for the full-service investment bank in 2021; the runaway market leader stood out thanks to its wide range of debt and equity capital market deals and M&A transactions, and it held corporate advisory roles on large trades.

Depending on how you look at it, opening shop in Uzbekistan in 2019 was either poorly timed or a stroke of genius. Kazakhstan’s Halyk Bank is doing a solid job of proving that its decision to set up Tenge Bank in Uzbekistan, now in its fourth year, was the smart thing to do as it increases its footprint in local investment circles.

E.SUN Bank is second to none in serving the different segments of Taiwan’s banking industry. This year, it wins Asiamoney’s award for best domestic bank in Taiwan, as well as best for corporates and best for small and medium-sized enterprises.

The changing of the guard at a systemically important Sri Lankan bank can be alarming even in the best of times. But throw a political and economic crisis into the mix and the situation becomes even more fraught.

In early 2017, when Dimantha Seneviratne took the reins as chief executive of NDB Bank, he unveiled the bank’s 'Transformation 2020' strategy to strengthen its corporate banking business. The plan, in consultation with the International Finance Corporation, aimed to improve policies toward small and medium-sized enterprises and the microfinance sector, and support businesses led by women.