Taiwan

The 28th annual Asiamoney Brokers Poll invited chief investment officers, fund managers and investment analysts to take part. Nearly 6,700 valid responses were received from voters representing fund management houses, insurance companies, pension funds, sovereign wealth funds, hedge funds and wealth managers from around the world.

Taiwan

Yuanta Securities

E.Sun Commercial Bank has received praise for its efforts in providing high-end banking services to Taiwan’s army of small and medium-sized enterprises – the lifeblood of this island economy. But the mid-sized private lender also deserves plaudits for the speed with which it has become an important player in the fast-growing world of private banking.

This award can often be hard to judge. What, after all, constitutes excellence in corporate and social responsibility? For their part, banks are often keen to stress their fluffy, giving side, while neglecting to trumpet the way their actual financial services benefit themselves and their clients.

Taishin Bank has worked hard to craft a new digital offering tailored to the next generation of spenders, investors, savers, homebuyers and young entrepreneurs. Its brainchild can feel a bit hit-and-miss at times. Do young users of Richart really enjoy logging on to a website that features an endearing but irritatingly omnipresent cartoon dog?

Every now and then, a lender emerges that sees the market a little differently. E.Sun Commercial Bank is one such case: a relatively young (founded in 1992) financial institution with driven and capable senior management.

No foreign bank comes close to competing with Citi for this award. The US lender comes top regularly on every conceivable metric.

Yuanta Securities, under CEO Arthur Chen, has been a leader in this field for years. In its worst years, it remains competitive; in its best years, it out-guns the rest of the field.