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Asia Corporate Finance
Moody’s Corporate Finance
Group is the business unit within the firm’s Global Ratings and Research Group
that serves non-financial corporations - including industrial, manufacturing,
technology, telecom, real estate, oil & gas and energy companies. Moody’s
focus and composition is truly global.
With ratings on more than
14,000 investment grade securities, 4,700 leveraged finance securities, and
1,900 bank loans, Moody’s coverage in corporate finance is unparalleled.
The Corporate Finance
Group works closely with other groups throughout Moody’s, taking advantage of
in-depth sector knowledge and expertise and leveraging very diverse experiences
to gain a complete understanding of an issuer’s credit risk.
Moody’s rates and
publishes opinions on Asian companies of varying sizes, spanning all the major
industrial and service sectors. Non-U.S. corporate finance ratings have
surpassed 5,000 in total and are growing at an extremely rapid pace. The number
of rated Asian companies has grown by more than 30% a year since 1997,
reflecting increased investor appetite for corporate paper and growing issue
awareness of the advantages of tapping capital markets. Moody’s expects this
number to rise further.
At the same time, we have
introduced new products, such as bank loan ratings and issuer ratings, to
reflect the evolving needs of borrowers, intermediaries and investors. Project
finance is now an established means of financing Asian utilities companies as
well as major infrastructure projects. Moody’s has built its analytic resources
in anticipation of this growth, with sizable credit hubs in Asia’s financial capitals - Korea, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore and Australia.
Experienced,
knowledgeable industry experts staff these offices. Most of our analysts are
local nationals, they are typically multilingual, and in all cases they are
fully integrated with Moody’s global ratings teams.
For more information,
please contact:
Clara Lau
Chief Credit Officer - Corporate Finance
HONG KONG
Phone:
852.2916.1133
Email:
clara.lau@moodys.com
Gary Lau
Senior Vice President - Corporate Finance
HONG KONG
Phone:
852.2916.1177
Email:
gary.lau@moodys.com
Terry Fanous
Senior Vice President - Corporate Finance
SYDNEY
Phone:
612.9270.8125
Email:
terry.fanous@moodys.com
Tony Tsai
Senior Vice President - Corporate Finance
SINGAPORE
Phone:
65.6398.8335
Email:
tony.tsai@moodys.com
Peter Choy
Vice President/Senior Credit Officer - Corporate Finance
HONG KONG
Phone:
852.2916.1266
Email:
peter.choy@moodys.com
Elizabeth Allen
Vice President/Senior Credit Officer - Corporate Finance
HONG KONG
Phone:
852.2916.1153
Email:elizabeth.allen@moodys.com
Laura Acres
Vice President/ Senior Credit Officer - Corporate Finance
HONG KONG
Phone:
852.2916.1110
Email:
laura.acres@moodys.com
Ivan Chung
Vice President/Senior Analyst - Corporate Finance
HONG KONG
Phone:
852.2916.1199
Email:
ivan.chung@moodys.com
Renee Lam
Vice President/Senior Analyst - Corporate Finance
HONG KONG
Phone:
852.2916.1183
Email:
renee.lam@moodys.com
Chris Park
Vice President/Senior Analyst - Corporate Finance
HONG KONG
Phone:
852.2916.1166
Email:
chris.park@moodys.com
Kathleen Lee
Vice President/Senior Analyst - Corporate Finance
SINGAPORE
Phone:
65.6398.8318
Email:
kathleen.lee@moodys.com
Ken Chan
Vice President/Senior Analyst - Corporate Finance
HONG KONG
Phone:
852.2916.1162
Email:
ken.chan@moodys.com
Kaven Tsang
Assistant Vice President/Analyst - Corporate Finance
HONG KONG
Phone:
+852.2916.1104
Email:
kaven.tsang@moodys.com
Jennifer Wong
Assistant Vice President/Analyst - Corporate Finance
HONG KONG
Phone:
852.2916.1173
Email:
jennifer.wong@moodys.com
Wonnie Chu
Analyst - Corporate Finance
HONG KONG
Phone:
852.2916.1143
Email:
waiping.chu@moodys.com
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Asia Financial Institutions
Moody’s ratings, analyses
and opinions on banks and other financial institutions carry significant weight
among investors, the entities themselves, regulators and various other market
participants worldwide. Coverage of non-bank financial institutions is
expanding rapidly.
Moody’s banking team in
the Asia Pacific is currently responsible for over 150 bank ratings in 12
systems, ranging from Japan and China to Australia and New Zealand. We rate virtually all of the
largest banks in each of these systems, giving us a broad and comprehensive
perspective on the financial systems in these countries. Our rating approach
considers both qualitative and quantitative factors to maximize flexibility and
ensure high quality opinions.
An important element in
our analysis is the social, political, and cultural environment in which banks
operate - a reflection of the key roles they play in financing their national
and local economies. The cultural diversity of our bank analysts enhances the
understanding of the intricacies of the banking systems followed and, at the
same time, helps promote a cross-border comparability that only a truly global
rating agency like Moody’s can provide.
The emerging markets
systems covered by these analysts are marked by relatively high volatility and
continuous change. The post-Asian financial crisis has prompted significant
developments in many of the banking systems, which are reflected in terms of
accelerated industry consolidation, greater foreign participation, new
corporate structures and revised risk-management operations.
The evolution of these
systems will continue to impact the financial profiles and franchises of the
individual banks, changes which will be closely monitored and incorporated in
our ratings.
In the Asia Pacific insurance
sector, we rate and publish opinions on companies in Taiwan, Australia and Japan. Moody’s rates insurance
financial strength, based on the same rating scale as bond ratings. We cover
the full range of insurance companies - life and health insurance, non-life
insurance, reinsurance, insurance holding companies, and mortgage insurers.
For more information,
please contact:
Jerry
Chien
Managing Director - Financial Institutions – Asia Pacific
HONG KONG
Phone:
852.2916.1106
Email:
jerry.chien@moodys.com
Deborah Schuler
Senior Vice President/Regional Credit Office - Financial Institutions
SINGAPORE
Phone:
65.6398.8336
Email:
deborah.schuler@moodys.com
Beatrice Woo
Vice President/ Senior Credit Officer - Financial Institutions
SINGAPORE
Phone:
65.6398.8332
Email:
beatrice.woo@moodys.com
Leo Wah
Vice President/Senior Analyst - Financial Institutions
HONG KONG
Phone:
852.2916.1163
Email:
leo.wah@moodys.com
Christine Kuo
Vice President/Senior
Analyst - Financial Institutions
SINGAPORE
Phone:
65.6398.8324
Email:
christine.kuo@moodys.com
Sally Yim
Vice President/Senior Analyst - Financial Institutions
HONG KONG
Phone:
852.2916.1250
Email:
yatmansally.yim@moodys.com
Yi Zhang
Vice President/Senior Analyst - Financial Institutions
BEIJING
Phone: 8610.6642.8968
Email: yi.zhang@moodys.com
Daniel Wong
Analyst - Financial Institutions
HONG KONG
Phone:
852.2916.1251
Email:
daniel.wong@moodys.com
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Asia Structured Finance
Moody’s has been closely
involved with the growth of the Asia Pacific structured finance market since 1994,
when we started to rate securitization transactions in Hong Kong. Today, following continued
growth in the region’s key markets, our team of experienced analysts Also
continues to grow.
As the leading rating
agency, Moody’s now rates more than 90% of the region’s issuance volume across
the different types of asset groups, including:
· Mortgage-backed securities (MBS)
· Asset-backed securities (ABS)
· Asset-backed commercial paper (ABCP)
· Future flow transactions
·
Collateralized
Debt Obligations (CDOs)
·
Collateralized
Loan Obligations (CLOs)
·
Commercial
mortgage-backed securities (CMBS)
Since we rate such a high
proportion of new structured finance deals, we have unrivaled understanding and
expertise in evaluating these asset classes and related structures under Asia’s different legal jurisdictions.
Much of the success of Moody’s structured finance group in Asia Pacific rests
on our well-known abilities to rate increasingly complex transactions on a
timely basis and to analyze numerous types of asset classes.
We regularly communicate
our opinions and analysis of new structured deals to our market constituents
through special comments and research, through investor briefings and
teleconferences.
For more information,
please contact:
Jennifer Elliott
Group Managing Director – Asia Pacific
HONG KONG
Phone:
852.2916.1233
Email:
jennifer.elliott@moodys.com
Andrew Zanchetta
Managing Director – Structured Finance – Asia Pacific
SYDNEY
Phone:
612.9270.8101
Email:
andrew.zanchetta@moodys.com
Jerome Cheng
Vice President/Senior Credit Officer - Structured Finance Group - Asia
HONG KONG
Phone:
852.2916.1109
Email:
jerome.cheng@moodys.com
Marie Lam
Vice President/Senior Credit Officer - Structured Finance Group - Asia
HONG KONG
Phone:
852.2916.1179
Email:
marie.lam@moodys.com
Elaine Ng
Vice President/Senior Analyst - Structured Finance Group - Asia
HONG KONG
Phone:
852.2916.1102
Email:
elaine.ng@moodys.com
Dominique Gribot-Carroz
Vice President/Business Development - Structured Finance Group - Asia
HONG KONG
Phone:
852.2916.1120
Email:
dominique.gribot-carroz@moodys.com
Helen Lam
Analyst - Structured Finance Group - Asia
HONG KONG
Phone:
852.2916.1144
Email:
helen.lam@moodys.com
Joe Wong
Analyst - Structured Finance Group – Asia
HONG KONG
Phone:
852.2916.1156
Email:
joe.wong@moodys.com
Kan Leung
Analyst - Structured Finance Group – Asia
HONG KONG
Phone:
852.2916.1219
Email:
kan.leung@moodys.com
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