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The bank’s ability to lead the headline-grabbing deals as well as smaller transactions indicates its strength in depth.

Euromoney Awards for Excellence 2006

Bahamas I Bardados I Bermuda I Dominician Republic I Jamaica I Trinidad & Tobago I Costa Rica I El Salvador I Guatemala I Honduras I Nicaragua I Panama I Argentina I Bolivia I Brazil I Chile I Colombia I Ecuador I Mexico I Paraguay I Peru I Uruguay I Venezuela

Bahamas I Bardados I Bermuda I Dominician Republic I Jamaica I Trinidad & Tobago I Costa Rica I El Salvador I Guatemala I Honduras I Nicaragua I Panama I Argentina I Bolivia I Brazil I Chile I Colombia I Ecuador I Mexico I Paraguay I Peru I Uruguay I Venezuela

Austria I Belguim I France I Germany I Greece I Ireland I Italy I Luxembourg I Netherlands I Portugal I Spain I Switzerland I United Kingdom Although the turnaround at Crédit Agricole and its investment banking subsidiary Calyon has been impressive, the group remains the poor cousin of rivals BNP Paribas and Société Générale, both of which continue to go from strength to strength and between them carve up Euromoney’s Awards for Excellence in France.

Australia I China I Hong Kong I India I Indonesia I Japan I Malaysia I Mongolia I Pakistan I Philippines I Singapore I Taiwan I Thailand HSBC wins the best bank in Hong Kong award again and it is hard to see the bank ever relinquishing the title, given its complete dominance of the market. It is the largest bank in Hong Kong by far, with the largest branch network and a product range to cover every kind of customer, from retail, consumer to commercial and corporate. The bank reported pretax profit for 2005 of $5.8 billion, a return on average assets of 1.44%, a cost-income ratio of 41.2%, a return on equity of 37% and a capital adequacy ratio of 12.4%.

Australia I China I Hong Kong I India I Indonesia I Japan I Malaysia I Mongolia I Pakistan I Philippines I Singapore I Taiwan I Thailand Taishin International Bank wins the award for best bank in Taiwan. Although one of Taiwan’s smaller banking organizations, ranking 17th largest by assets, Taishin is one of the island’s best-run banks, demonstrated by its superior financial ratios. Net interest margin in the latest financial year was 5%, the return on assets 1.5% and return on equity 17%, all of which rank among the very best for Taiwanese banks.

Bahamas I Bardados I Bermuda I Dominician Republic I Jamaica I Trinidad & Tobago I Costa Rica I El Salvador I Guatemala I Honduras I Nicaragua I Panama I Argentina I Bolivia I Brazil I Chile I Colombia I Ecuador I Mexico I Paraguay I Peru I Uruguay I Venezuela

Botswana I Ethopia I The Gambia I Ghana I Kenya I Malawi I Mauritius I Namibia I Nigeria I Senegal I South Africa I Swaziland I Tanzania I Togo I Uganda I Zambia I Zimbabwe Despite social conditions that might be thought to curtail normal business activity – part of Ethiopia experienced a famine in 2005 and hostilities with rebel groups in the country have escalated – the Ethiopian economy grew at a cracking 8.9% in 2005. Dashen Bank, the leading private sector bank in the market, has taken advantage of this growth and kept admirably focused on growing its operations profitably and introducing new products and services to its customer base.

Azerbaijan I Kazakhstan I Kyrgyzstan I Uzbekistan Kyrgyz Industrial Credit Bank is probably the most transparent bank in the sometimes murky Kyrgyz banking sector, in part thanks to the presence of both the International Finance Corporation and the European Bank for Reconstruction & Development as shareholders. The multilaterals helped set up the bank, together with the Aga Khan Development Network. It has established itself as an important lender to the industrial sector.

Australia I China I Hong Kong I India I Indonesia I Japan I Malaysia I Mongolia I Pakistan I Philippines I Singapore I Taiwan I Thailand Public Bank is the best bank in Malaysia by some distance and with the government seemingly bent on removing all other viable competitors save monolithic government-linked institutions, it might remain the only credible candidate for years to come.

The bank has dominated key trends such as corporate hybrids and structured notes.