CIMB looks beyond local excellence

Malaysia’s best investment bank has its sights set across southeast Asia.

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CIMB has long been the pre-eminent investment bank in Malaysia. Year after year, the most powerful brokerage in the country has topped the equity capital markets, debt capital markets and M&A league tables in the investment banking categories in Euromoney’s Awards for excellence.

Sri Nazir Razak, CIMB Group’s CEO – referred to in Kuala Lumpur circles as Malaysia’s unofficial finance minister, since his brother Najib, the prime minister, is said to seek his advice – has risen through investment banking, building that business before the many mergers that turned CIMB into a full-service bank, and it remains the bank’s most impressive arm.

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