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The Asset Magazine
Triple A Transaction Banking Awards Gala Dinner March 26 2008
Celebrating excellence
The Asset Apr-2008 By Simon Yau
     
A record crowd  A  buzzing hive of winners  Asia's  Best Transaction Bank for 2008 is  HSBC
     
Anthony Nappi  smiles to the crowd as he accepts Best Transaction Banker award  ICBC's winning  transaction banking team with The Asset's  staff  Kenneth Tse Depositary Receipt Banker of the  Year
     
  For the best and brightest lights in Asian transaction banking  Ong Tee Chong gives a short speech  Transaction Banker of the Year  Anthony Nappi  receives his AAA plaque
     
 John Laurens accepts Best Cash Management Bank in HK award for HSBC  HSBC hunkers  to win  Nick Bryan  accepts  Best in Securities & Fund Services award for  HSBC
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 Posing with friends. Simon Jones of JPMorgan, Lum Yin Fong  of DBS Bank & John Laurens of HSBC  Standard Chartered Bank's  Ong Tee Chong brings his own panache and humour as he  accepts his  institutional leadership award for structured trade finance Citi wins the much coveted Best Cash Management Bank for Asia award
     
Tay  Kok Keong accepts Deutsche  Bank's  Best Cash Management Specialist for Corporates award Zhou Yueqiu accepts  Best Transaction Bank  in China award for  ICBC  Nick Bryan. Patrick Cichy &  Rose Tantoco  pose for  posterity
     
Standard Chartered Bank with  Hong Kong Treasurer Association's  president Peter Wong  Tracy Doolittle accepts the Best Trade Finance Bank in Asia award for  HSBC  Rosemarie Kriesel accepts the  Best Fund Administrator Award for  BoNYMellon
     
 Karen  Fawcett accepts  Best Cash Management Bank  in  South Asia award for Standard Chartered Bank  Lum Yin Fong & Elizabeth Chia accept the Best Transaction Bank in Singapore award Lalina Cherdboonamang accepts the Best Trade Finance Bank  for  Thailand award for Bangkok Bank
     
 Piecing together the  currency puzzle  The hallmark  of a winner is the intensity  of focus The team from Standard Chartered Bank in action
     
 Who do you think will get the big awards Francesco Squillacioti accepts  Best in Securities Lending_ award for  State Street  Marcel Ivison & Ong Tee Chong  accept Best Structured Trade Finance Bank for Asia award  for  Standard Chartered Bank
     
 Cai Chunyan accepts the Best Trade Finance Bank in China award for Bank of China  Charamporn Jotikasthira accepts Best Domestic Custodian  for Thailand award for Siam Commercial Bank  Citi Celebration
     
 Citi receives  its Best Cash Management Bank award for North Asia Damian Macinante accepts the  Best E- commerce Bank  award for  Citi  David Leong accepts  Best Trade Finance Bank award in  Korea for SC First Bank 
     
Jahja Setiaatmadja accepts the  Best Cash Management Bank  in Indonesia award  for Bank Central Asia  

Jon Richman  of Standard Chartered Bank, Sundeep Verma  of Deutsche Bank & Michael T. McCarthy State Street smile for the  camera

 Percy Batliwalla & Thomas Schickler  accept two awards for  JPMorgan. The bank  won the   Best Cash Management Specialist for - Liquidity Solutions & Financial Institutions 
     
 Philippe Jaccard accepts the Best Cash Management Bank  in Vietnam award for Citi  So, what's new at OCBC.... Standard Chartered Bank's Peter Lim and Alan Lee  pose with  Zhong Jun's Xu Ren Wei (in the middle)  for the  Best Structured Trade Solution Award 
     
     
     
     

More pictures of cash management award winners in The Asset’s  April  2008  Cash and Treasury Management  Report
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Country Garden opts for a CB

The Asset Feb-2008 
By Chito Santiago

Chinese property developer Country Garden Holdings, which cancelled a high yield bond offering of US$1.5 billion in November last year, has raised 3.6 billion renminbi (US$507 million) through an issuance of convertible bonds in the middle of February.

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Days of cheap cash gone ... for now

The Asset Jul/Aug-2008 
By Chito Santiago

The loan syndication market used to be a borrowers' market where banks were willing to lend even at rock bottom pricing levels. In a reversal of role, as the cost of funding has shot up, borrowers are having to put up with higher spreads. Lenders have become much more selective and less willing to underwrite as they see safety in numbers, where several banks can agree on a pricing and share the risk

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Changes in policy provide renewed hope

The Asset Feb-2008 
By Clare Jim

On the brink of a relaxation of regulatory controls vis-à-vis investment in China afforded by a change in the political environment, the excitement among Taiwan's financial institutions is palpable. However, it remains to be seen whether the frenetic activity, already underway, will pave the way for steady growth of these institutions in China