Awards for Excellence 2014: Best emerging markets bank

Best emerging markets bank: HSBC

How do you compete with a bank like HSBC? With a balanced global business model, providing some hedge against market volatilities, HSBC, like Citi, is tightly chained to the emerging market growth cycle.

While revenue growth at the group level might not be reaching the levels some shareholders expect for an institution that captures 85% of global trade flows, the global lender has made concerted steps to become the proverbial nimble elephant.