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The RBS group is a large international banking and financial services
company. Headquartered in Edinburgh, the Group operates in the United Kingdom,
Europe, the Americas and Asia, serving more than 40 million customers. The Group
provides a wide range of products and services to personal, commercial and large
corporate and institutional customers through its two principal subsidiaries,
The Royal Bank of Scotland and NatWest, as well as through a number of other
well known brands including, Citizens, Ulster Bank, Coutts, Direct Line and
Churchill. The Equity Derivatives & Structured Retail Asia sales team at RBS Global
Banking & Markets, working hand-in-hand with the Global Structuring APAC
team offers institutional and private investors a full range of structured
product solutions that are built upon a truly multi-asset class platform across
a spectrum of underlying assets including rates, currencies, equities, indices,
commodities and structured funds. In recent years the Equity Derivatives &
Structured Retail sales team has been actively involved in Asian markets,
including but not limited to Australia, China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Japan, Korea,
Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand and Indonesia. In recent times they have pioneered
and popularized Dynamic Strategies in Asia. The team has been accredited with a
number of industry awards including EUROMONEY 2009 Awards for Excellence: Best
Global Structured Products House; AsiaRISK 'Deal of the Year 2009’ award and a
total of nine 2009 Triple A awards from The Asset, including 'Rising Star Equity
Derivatives House', 'Best Structured Product – Equity-linked' and others.
BNP Paribas (rated AA/Aa2) is a European leader in banking and financial
services, and is one of the 6 strongest banks in the world according to Standard
& Poor’s. With over 201,000 employees worldwide, BNP Paribas has offices in
85 countries spread across 6 continents. GECD is the business line within CIB which combines the complementary
activities of Equity & Commodity Derivatives and Securities Asia. GECD’s Equity Derivatives business encompasses research, structuring, trading
and sales of equity, index and fund derivatives. Through innovation, expertise
and client focus, BNP Paribas Equity Derivatives has emerged as a global leader
in the industry and holds some of the largest trading positions and market
shares worldwide. Commodity Derivatives offers a full range of price risk management solutions.
Underlyings include energy, metals and soft commodities. The OTC
(Over-The-Counter) group provides liquidity and market-making services, while
the Futures team provides global clearing and financing tools for listed
commodity futures and options to the corporate and institutional client base of
BNP Paribas. GECD’s fully integrated Asian equity brokerage platform offers institutional
clients a comprehensive range of research and execution services in Asian equity
products and their derivatives. The platform delivers dynamic, on the ground
coverage of 9 markets across Asia, including Japan, Korea, China and India.
CIMB Group is Malaysia’s second largest financial services provider and one
of Southeast Asia’s leading universal banking groups. It offers consumer
banking, investment banking, Islamic banking, asset management and insurance
products and services. Headquartered in Kuala Lumpur, its key operations are
located in Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia and Thailand. The Group also has
presence in Brunei, Myanmar and Vietnam. Beyond ASEAN, the Group has offices in
Hong Kong, Bahrain, London and New York, as well as a 19.99% stake in Bank of
Yingkou, China. CIMB Group operates its business through three main brand entities, CIMB
Bank, CIMB Investment Bank and CIMB Islamic. CIMB Group is also the majority
shareholder of Bank CIMB Niaga in Indonesia, and the single largest shareholder
of CIMB Thai in Thailand. CIMB Group is listed on Bursa Malaysia via CIMB Group Holdings Berhad
(formerly known as Bumiputra-Commerce Holdings Bhd). It has a market
capitalisation of approximately RM49.7 billion as at 31 March 2010. The Group
has over 36,000 employees located in 11 countries.
At the core of Societe Generale's universal banking business model, the
Corporate & Investment Bank is a well-diversified and leading player with
nearly 11,000 professionals present in 33 countries across Europe, the Americas
and Asia-Pacific. Standing by its clients across sectors, the Corporate & Investment Bank
tailors solutions for them by capitalising on its worldwide expertise in
investment banking, global finance, and global markets.
Deutsche Bank is a leading investment bank with a strong presence globally. A
leader in Germany and Europe, the bank is continuously growing in North America,
Asia and key emerging markets. With roughly 80,000 staff from 145 nations and
approximately 2,000 branches, Deutsche Bank offers in 72 countries a wide
variety of investment, and financial products to private individuals, corporate
entities and institutional clients around the world. Products include bonds,
equities, rates, foreign exchange, commodities through exchange traded platform,
over-the-counter derivatives and funds. Despite turbulence on the financial
markets, Deutsche Bank maintained its capital strength. This gives the bank a
firm foundation from which to focus on its responsibilities to its clients,
shareholders, staff and finally to the financial system
The Innovative Investor is a quarterly online digital magazine and
weekly e-newsletter providing exclusive content for the leading distributors,
investors and other key market participants in the structured products industry
in Asia-Pacific. The publication aims, through in-depth articles and interviews with the most
relevant and high-profile individuals on both the buy- and sell-side, to help
market participants protect their business and maximise revenue from engaging
structured products in an appropriate way. The unique editorial mix covers the
strategic and technical issues that readers don't get from reading other
publications. The content covers market developments from a wide range of asset classes,
including: Equities, Commodities, FX, Interest Rates, Insurance, Credit, Mutual
Funds and Hedge Funds. This is achieved through a combination of news analysis,
people moves, profiles of leading distributors, regulatory reviews, in-depth
articles on market trends, analysis of product technology, and insight into
investor sentiment. Visit:
www.innovative-investor.com
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