Asiamoney Best Bank Awards

South Korea’s KB Financial Group is a clear winner of the best corporate and investment bank award, if only for making navigating the last 20 months of pandemic turmoil look easy.

Busan Bank, headquartered in South Korea’s second-largest city of Busan, takes the Asiamoney awards this year for best bank for SMEs and best bank for corporate social responsibility.

Busan Bank, headquartered in South Korea’s second-largest city of Busan, takes the Asiamoney awards this year for best bank for SMEs and best bank for corporate social responsibility.

Ok-Dong Jin, chief executive of Shinhan Bank, gave what has come to be known internally as the “do or die” address to his top executives last January. The gist of it was that the bank needed to accelerate efforts to raise its digital game or else it would lose ground to competitors.

SBI Royal Securities has a unique place in Cambodia’s corporate and investment banking market, as it was the first Japanese institution to be given a full securities licence in Cambodia 11 years ago. It hasn’t looked back since.

The Covid-19 pandemic, which led to weak export markets and hit living standards, did not stop Canadia Bank from maintaining the strongest balance sheet in the nation for a third consecutive year.

Campu Bank, as Cambodia Public Bank is known, could make a plausible run at any number of Asiamoney awards this year, including for its assertive, innovative and generous support for SMEs.

Anar Chinbaatar, one of five founders of LendMN, doesn’t claim to be able to see into the future. But it’s hard to think of an entrepreneur who did a better job of gearing a startup for where Mongolia would be six years on.

Trade and Development Bank of Mongolia didn’t miss a step in 2020, its 30th anniversary year, when it strengthened its status as the nation’s best corporate and investment bank.