Premier League of Asian investment banking: The banks battling to get into the big league

Deciding a cut-off point for Asia’s top investment banking franchises was not easy; several of the firms outside our top 12 might feel that their businesses are very nearly equivalent to those who scraped in to the lower rankings.

How to score in Asia’s markets
The banks battling to get into the big league
How we calculated the Asia Premier League
Bank of America Merrill Lynch Barclays Capital
Citi Credit Suisse
Deutsche Bank Goldman Sachs
HSBC JP Morgan
Morgan Stanley Nomura
Standard Chartered UBS

  

Asian investment banking’s dream team

Deciding a cut-off point for Asia’s top investment banking franchises was not easy; several of the firms outside our top 12 might feel that their businesses are very nearly equivalent to those who scraped in to the lower rankings.

Probably closest to inclusion was RBS, which, despite the sneers of regional rivals that say the UK bank is out for the count, says it is fully committed to Asia and indeed already making good money.

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