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Asia’s top banks risk becoming too big to fail

August 09, 2012  


From Frances Yoon

Regional lenders have shown more resilience compared with their western peers, but new regulatory regimes and expansion into riskier businesses is raising concerns about financial stability.

Asian markets are in danger of possessing financial institutions that have become both too big to fail and more exposed to risky lending, a combination that caused enormous financial damage in western markets, say analysts.

A whirlwind of scandals and...


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SOUTHEAST ASIA DCM

Rank Bookrunner Parents Deal Value $ (Proceeds) (m) No. %share 2012 YTD Rank
1 Standard Chartered Bank 3,924.05 31 9.7 2
2 HSBC 3,630.31 34 8.9 4
3 Goldman Sachs 3,332.96 2 8.2 11
4 Deutsche Bank 2,894.76 14 7.1 8
5 JPMorgan 2,287.75 7 5.6 3
6 DBS 1,857.13 22 4.6 1
7 Siam Commercial Bank 1,835.24 16 4.5 22
8 Citi 1,690.39 8 4.2 5
9 CIMB Group 1,445.84 25 3.6 12
10 UBS 1,321.29 10 3.3 23
Subtotal 24,219.71 120 59.6
Total 40,673.06 201 100.0



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