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Southeast Asia: Best Local Bank in the Region for BRI 2019

Siam Commercial Bank has built strong and sturdy links with Chinese lenders and corporates, working hard to ensure it is a key conduit in bilateral trade in general, and in local BRI deals.

September 25, 2019

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New Silk Road Finance Awards

Southeast Asia: Best Bank for BRI-related financing in the Region 2019

Maybank has been consistently successful at inserting itself into local and regional BRI deals.

September 25, 2019

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Southeast Asia: Best Bank for Infrastructure/Project Finance in the Region 2019

When awards like these are being handed out, HSBC should, just by dint of its long history and presence in China and southeast Asia, be a perennial contender. Yet any lender, whatever its size and history, still has to do the legwork, a fact that the UK-based bank knows full well.

September 25, 2019

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September 18, 2018

New Silk Road Finance Awards

Overall: Best Chinese bank for BRI 2018

There is no question that Bank of China International deserves to be named best Chinese Bank for the Belt and Road Initiative. BOC's parent, Bank of China, was the first bank to issue BRI bonds, back in 2015, which it uses to help finance infrastructure projects along the old Silk Road.

September 18, 2018

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South Asia: Best International Bank in the Region for BRI 2019

Standard Chartered spotted the benefits of China’s Belt and Road Initiative from the start. With 160 years of experience in China and 150 years of history in south Asia – where it is present in India, Bangladesh, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka, with 250 branches and 14,000 employees – StanChart saw from the outset that it and the BRI were a natural fit.

September 25, 2019

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South Asia: Best Local Bank in the Region for BRI 2019

Few lenders were quicker to spot the benefits of China’s Belt and Road Initiative than Habib Bank Ltd. Over the last decade, HBL has been Beijing’s go-to financial partner in Pakistan, and a vital player in its efforts to draw south Asia tightly into its economic and financial orbit.

September 25, 2019

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South Asia: Best Bank for BRI-related Financing in the Region 2019

In essence, the BRI is little more than a big and ambitious country’s outward-facing trade policy, which happens to hit more Asian economies than it misses. Each year it grows and matures. Perhaps the key BRI change over the last year has been India’s tentative embrace of the project. Standard Chartered’s pitch for this award is evidence of India’s wary but undeniable acceptance that the BRI is a long-term reality that it can no longer afford to ignore.

September 25, 2019

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Best Bank for Infrastructure/Project Finance in the Region 2019

Many international banks start pitches for awards by extolling their unrivalled understanding of local markets. HSBC is one of the few that lives up to the boast. Across south Asia, it had a leading role in a slew of BRI deals. In Sri Lanka, it acted as sole mandated lead arranger, lender and agent on a $72 million, Sinosure-supported facility to finance the upgrading of hospitals in Sri Lanka.

September 25, 2019

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CEE & Central West Asia: Best Bank for Infrastructure/Project Finance in the Region 2019

The expansion of Minsk National Airport is a crucial part of local policymakers’ drive to position Belarus at the heart of the Belt and Road Initiative. Belarusian president Alexander Lukashenko officially opened the second runway at Minsk National Airport in May. The new facility, which took three years to complete and was built using state-of-the-art technology, is big enough to accommodate the largest commercial aircraft and doubles the airport’s capacity for passenger traffic.

September 25, 2019

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CEE & Central West Asia: Best Individual BRI Project or Initiative in the Region 2019

Created in 2012 by the Belarusian government with the support of policymakers in Beijing, Great Stone Industrial Park is the largest international industrial park with Chinese investment and a cornerstone of Belarus’s commitment to the Belt and Road project.

September 25, 2019

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Middle East and Africa: Best Regional Bank for BRI 2019

First Abu Dhabi Bank consolidated its position as the leading Middle Eastern bank for Belt and Road financing during the awards period from 2018 to 2019.

September 25, 2019

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