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The 34th annual Asiamoney Brokers Poll is a Vox Populi poll that identifies the leading brokerages for equities research, sales and trading in Asia. Voters are institutional investors who represent fund management firms, wealth managers, hedge funds, pension funds, and insurance companies that trade in Asia.
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Maybank Investment Bank
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From 1990s economic superstar to jail and now finally to the top job, Malaysia’s prime minister has had an extraordinary political journey. Now that Anwar Ibrahim is finally the boss, can he fix Malaysia’s many problems?
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The 33rd annual Asiamoney Brokers Poll is a Vox Populi poll that identifies the leading brokerages for equities research, sales and trading in Asia. Voters are institutional investors who represent fund management firms, wealth managers, hedge funds, pension funds, and insurance companies that trade in Asia.
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After more than a decade of working to achieve big things in Malaysia, Hong Leong Bank is increasingly thinking small as it steers its business towards supporting startups.
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In an era when most investment banks scramble to help small and medium-sized enterprises repair past damage, CIMB deserves kudos for looking ahead to where Malaysia Inc hopes to go.
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In an age when banks everywhere are playing catch-up with ESG principles, Maybank’s longstanding commitment to diversity in its ranks is winning important shoutouts. Although there are other measures, Bloomberg’s GEI carries real weight in the industry because of its place at the nexus of financial data and reporting.
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In close to 30 years of offering Shariah-compliant products and services, Public Islamic Bank has become part of Malaysia’s market infrastructure, paving the way for the industry and its constellation of issuers and investors.
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When Credit Suisse accepted a mandate in October 2021 for IOI Corporation’s $300 million, 10-year bond, many observers in Malaysia could not help but wonder if the Swiss bank was trying to make a point.
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Despite all the investment banking rivals nipping at its heels in 2021, Maybank Investment Bank, which has spent 49 years navigating the ebbs and flows of Malaysia’s event-rich economy, proved unbeatable.
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The way RHB Banking Group responded to Malaysia’s overlapping crises these last two years is nothing short of impressive.
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AmBank, led by chief executive Sulaiman Mohd Tahir, has been rapidly gaining ground at home.
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Kuala Lumpur’s banking scene is awash with savvy mobile apps that ensure customers might never again want, or need, to enter a bank branch.
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If any bank in Malaysia put pressure on its peers to play catch-up in 2021, it’s Hong Leong Bank, the nation’s oldest local financial institution.
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Citi’s Malaysia chief executive, Usman Ahmed, took the reins at the bank in February 2021, in the thick of the Covid-19 pandemic and at a time of political turmoil.
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It has been a tough decade for AmBank Group as it navigated the aftermath of Malaysia’s 1MBD scandal. But following AmBank’s record legal settlement over its role in this corporate nightmare, the bank is emerging as a new takeover target.
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Tony Fernandes made his fortune after launching an airline in Malaysia 21 years ago. But as Covid continues to batter AirAsia, he’s hoping to remake his fortune with a new, fintech-based super app – and transform Asean banking much as he did with the aviation industry.
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The 32nd annual Asiamoney Brokers Poll is a Vox Populi poll that identifies the leading brokerages for equities research, sales and trading in Asia. Voters are institutional investors who represent fund management firms, wealth managers, hedge funds, pension funds, and insurance companies that trade in Asia.
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The chief executive of Malaysia’s HelloGold is on an important mission: to make the global gold market accessible to all.
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Malaysia’s hopes of political and economic reform proved short-lived. The appointment of a new prime minister means the discredited political party UMNO is back in the driving seat.
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Investors in Malaysia tend to be distracted by the large, government-linked companies that tower over the economy. In reality, small and medium-sized enterprises are the lifeblood of Malaysia Inc: 98.5% of businesses are SMEs of myriad sizes and across all sectors, and these enterprises account for 39% – or $131 billion – of Malaysia's gross domestic product.
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With 116 years on the local scene, Hong Leong Bank tends to walk away with awards for its innovative and steady business for small and medium-sized enterprises.
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To put Maybank Investment Bank’s performance in perspective, consider this: it notched up $12.3 billion of investment banking deals in the 12 months to June 1, which was 34% more than its closest rival.
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AmBank’s chief executive, Sulaiman Mohd Tahir, and his team didn’t need any nudges from the Malaysian government as 2020 descended into economic chaos. AmBank was already way ahead of pleas from the government to extend loan payment schedules: it offered creative restructuring plans and generous repayment assistance packages.
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Over the last decade, CIMB Islamic Bank, led by chief executive Ahmad Shahriman Mohd Shariff, has emerged as a premier medium-sized, full-service Islamic franchise in the Asean region.
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On paper, Citi Malaysia is a hard operation to beat. After 62 years in Kuala Lumpur, its 5,000-plus workforce offers innovative financial products and services to companies and institutions. Citi banks 80% of the companies with the largest market capitalization in Malaysia and 650 multinational corporations.
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Maybank’s decision to commit nearly $12 billion to a sustainable finance framework goes a long way to explaining why it deserves Asiamoney’s best bank award in Malaysia yet again this year. The announcement by Malaysia’s biggest lender in July 2021 drew attention to the nation’s efforts to raise its economic game.
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The 31st annual Asiamoney Brokers Poll invited chief investment officers, fund managers and investment analysts to take part. Voters represented fund management houses, hedge fund & private equity firms, insurance companies and wealth management houses in Asia, Europe and North America.
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From Malaysia’s central bank to its largest commercial bank, women are at the helm — and they are actively working to promote the next crop of female leaders.
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Bankers and investors in Kuala Lumpur continue to live in the shadow of the scandal.
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The bank’s regional expansion has been challenged by the Covid-19 pandemic. But its chief executive sounds an optimistic note – seeing opportunity in a moment of volatility.
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The country’s economy has not been this hard hit since the Asian financial crisis. Political instability, global tensions and weak productivity mean the recovery is going to be slow – and painful.
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It’s easy to approach Maybank’s stated ‘mission to humanize financial services’ with a sense of cynicism. It sounds like the sort of thing conjured up by a mid-level strategy team to polish an annual report or two. But a look at the bank’s community outreach programmes shows that those are not empty words.
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Hong Leong Bank (HLB) has endured a lot in its 115-year operating history: two world wars, the Great Depression, a string of modern financial crises. But Covid-19 offers a unique problem for a bank that has become increasingly committed – and, as a result, exposed – to Malaysia’s small and medium-sized enterprises.
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Picking Malaysia’s digital champion in the coronavirus age is even more difficult than usual. Every financial institution is racing to adapt to customers’ needs to avoid brick-and-mortar facilities and ATMs. Call-centre operations face unprecedented upheaval thanks to a work-from-home zeitgeist that few saw coming.
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HSBC’s response to the coronavirus in Malaysia deserves plaudits. The bank, run by Malaysia chief executive Stuart Milne, was the first in the country to announce that both the interest for conventional loans as well as profit on Islamic financing would not be compounded during the moratorium period.
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If any institution in the region embodies the universal bank concept it is CIMB, which has been led by Abdul Rahman Ahmad since June. What a year to take the hot seat.
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Don’t get used to it. This, essentially, is what chief executive Abdul Farid Alias told investors recently when Maybank, Malaysia’s largest listed company, managed to beat first-quarter forecasts.
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CIMB Private Banking
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Toppling a political dynasty is one thing, stabilizing Malaysia’s corruption-riddled finances is quite another, as finance minister Lim Guan Eng has discovered in his first 18 months in the job.
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The 30th annual Asiamoney Brokers Poll invited chief investment officers, fund managers and investment analysts to take part. Voters represented fund management houses, insurance companies, pension funds, sovereign wealth funds, hedge funds and wealth managers from around the world.