5TH ANNUAL BEST FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS AWARDS 2011 - MALAYSIAN WINNERS

KUALA LUMPUR, 19 September 2011 (Bernama) -- The Hong-Kong based Alpha Southeast

Asia magazine announced yesterday the Malaysian winners of its "5th Annual Best

Financial Institutions Awards 2011". The Best Bank award and Best SME award went

to Public Bank, for actively promoting loan products for the SME segment secured

under the Credit Guarantee Corporation (CGC) Scheme.

The awards were based on the bank's 2010 performance, award pitches as well as

peer and customer surveys.

Again, CIMB dominated the awards scooping up accolades for Best Investment Bank;

Best Bond House; Best Equity House; Best Institutional Broker; Best Cash

Management; Best FXs for Corporates & FIs; Best Private Wealth Management; Best

Islamic Finance Bank as well as the special marquee award for Southeast Asia.

HSBC proved worthy of the Best Foreign Bank award for Malaysia, Indonesia and

Vietnam for ranking number one in profits before tax and total assets.

The award recipients in the honour call (from left to right): Mr. Mahadir Manap,

Director, Global Wholesale Banking, Maybank (Best Trade Finance Bank); YBhg

Datin Ami Moris, Head of Equities, Maybank Investment Bank (Best Retail Broker);

Encik Anuar Omar, Director & Head of Corporate Finance, AmInvestment Bank (Best

Mid-Cap Corporate Finance House); Mr. Baldev Singh, CFO, HSBC Malaysia, (Best

Foreign Bank); Dato' Sri Lee Kong Lam, Executive Director, Public Bank (Best SME

Bank); Tan Sri Tay Ah Lek, Managing Director, Public Bank (Best Bank); Madam

Kong Sooi Lin, Director & Head of Corporate Client Solutions, CIMB Investment

Bank (Best Investment Bank); Mr. Siddiq Bazarwala, Publisher, Alpha Southeast

Asia; Puan Nor Masliza Sulaiman, EVP & Head, Regional Debt Capital Markets &

Syndicate, Group Treasury, CIMB Investment Bank (Best Bond House); Mr. Patrick

Tan, Regional Head, Equity Capital Markets, CIMB Investment Bank (Best Equity

House); Encik Badlisyah Abdul Ghani, CEO, CIMB Islamic (Best Islamic Finance

Bank in Malaysia & Southeast Asia); Ms. Carolyn Leng, Head of Private Banking -

Malaysia, CIMB Private Banking (Best Private Wealth Management); Mr. Campbell

Tupling, CEO, CIMB-Principal Asset Management (Best Asset Manager in Southeast

Asia); Mr. Mirza Farhad Sardar Baig, SVP, Global Corporate Sales and Group

Treasury, CIMB Investment Bank (Best FX Bank for Corporates & FIs); Mr. Lucas

Chew, Director, Transaction Banking - Malaysia, CIMB Investment Bank (Best Cash

Management Bank); Puan Julia Hashim, Director & Group Head of Malaysia

Institutional Sales, CIMB Investment Bank (Best Institutional Broker).

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SOURCE : ALPHA SOUTHEAST ASIA

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