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Latin America’s best bank for advisory 2021: BofA Securities

In February 2020 BofA Securities reorganized its corporate and investment banking teams in Latin America, with Augusto Urmeneta becoming head of corporate and investment banking. At that time Hans Lin, head of Brazil investment banking – a key market for the bank and one in which it has excelled – joined the bank’s global private capital council. Meanwhile Bruno Saraiva was named co-head of Brazil investment banking alongside Lin, who remains in charge of the ECM team.

July 14, 2021

Awards for Excellence

Asia’s best bank 2021: DBS

DBS retains the award for Asia’s best bank for its outstanding response to the Covid-19 crisis.

July 14, 2021

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Awards for Excellence

Asia’s best bank for SMEs 2021: UOB

When Covid began to close in on southeast Asia in 2020, UOB didn’t wait. In February 2020, before any government support and before much of the west had even acknowledged there was a virus to worry about, UOB announced S$3 billion of relief assistance to SME clients.

July 14, 2021

Awards for Excellence

CEE’s best bank 2021: OTP Group

A decade of work on reinforcing capital bases, managing bad debts, improving risk management processes and investment in technology paid off for the big regional banking groups in central and eastern Europe (CEE) during the first 12 months of the pandemic.

July 14, 2021

Awards for Excellence

Asia’s best bank for sustainable finance 2021: HSBC

Despite strong showings from peers including BNP Paribas and Citi, HSBC’s strength in sustainable finance is deep rooted and hard to match. Jonathan Drew’s team lifts this award for the fourth consecutive year.

July 14, 2021

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Awards for Excellence

Middle East’s best bank for SMEs 2021: Riyad Bank

Riyad Bank’s transformation into the region’s best bank for small and medium-sized enterprises coincides with Saudi Arabia’s Vision 2030 plans to diversify away from oil and towards tourism, manufacturing, clean energy and logistics. SMEs are one of the key planks not only of Riyad Bank chief executive Tareq Al Sadhan’s business strategy but also for Vision 2030. The kingdom has a longstanding aim of boosting the share of loans allocated to smaller firms to 20% by the end of the decade, against 2% in 2015.

July 14, 2021

Awards for Excellence

Western Europe’s best bank 2021: BNP Paribas

Business diversification has proved to be a crucial asset for BNP Paribas over the past year. Relatively intact operations such as fixed income trading have provided vital props to its financial performance compared with local rivals that had made deeper cuts to those businesses pre-Covid. Post-pandemic the bank has become even more important as a financier to its western European clients. It has also moved earlier than other top-tier global banks to burnish its sustainability credentials.

July 14, 2021

Awards for Excellence

Western Europe’s best bank for SMEs 2021: HSBC

HSBC, with big operations in the UK and France as well as a presence on the ground in 20 markets across Europe, wins the award for the region’s best bank for small and medium-sized enterprises this year, against strong challenges from UniCredit and Santander.

July 14, 2021

CAPITAL MARKETS

China’s crackdown on US listings heralds new era

Beijing made clear this week that it is determined to stop its firms from selling shares in New York. A simultaneous crackdown on ride-hailing firm Didi also offers a timely reminder to global investors that China is no longer committed to market reforms but to ideology and sovereignty in the Xi Jinping era.

Elliot Wilson, July 13, 2021

Opinion

Pakistan: Anyone for MSCI tennis?

If you have Wimbledon withdrawal symptoms, watch Pakistan’s status in MSCI’s indices, which has the same quality as a ball being smacked back and forwards during an interminable rally.

July 13, 2021

CAPITAL MARKETS

Temasek shows the benefits of equities with 25% return

Temasek’s unusual positioning among sovereign wealth vehicles allowed it to get full exposure to the equity upswing. The results also tell us interesting things about developed versus emerging markets, deal making in a travel-free pandemic and making the best of a crisis.

Chris Wright, July 13, 2021

Fintech

SMEs will need invoice finance as governments withdraw support

New platforms that underwrite and process invoices due from large creditworthy payers may encourage bank and institutional financing for small and medium-sized enterprises.

Peter Lee, July 13, 2021

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