IFR Malaysian Capital Markets 2010: Participants

Ai Chin Tan, OCBC Bank (Malaysia) Ai Chin Tan is head of investment banking at OCBC Bank (Malaysia). Prior to her current position, she was head of debt origination at RBS Bank Malaysia (formerly ABN AMRO), in charge of both local and foreign currency debt raising and financial advisory services. She was also previously general manager and head of the capital markets and structured finance division in the investment banking arm of Maybank Group. She has accumulated almost 20 years of experience in a wide array of investment banking activities...

IFR Malaysian Capital Markets 2010: Part 1

IFR: Malaysia had a relatively good crisis and came through it in pretty good shape. Sentiment today in the domestic capital markets seems to be fairly robust, the economic metrics are looking OK, and the central bank has been quite pragmatic in its rate policy. Angus, what are your general thoughts? Angus Salim Amran, Cagamas: I think that you’re correct when you say that Malaysia has probably done very well considering what’s happened in the rest of the world. I think it’s also very good to know that despite the fact that we’ve seen erratic...

IFR Malaysian Capital Markets 2010: Part 2

IFR: So expand on that last point about the fund. How do you envisage that might work? Promod Dass, RAM Ratings: Well, you could have a fund that focuses on this segment and of course they will look at high-yield. As to the type of investor, I’m not sure. But I just feel that there is a gap in the market. I go back to the point that when banks sell NPLs, there are investors or funds that come and look for these sorts of risky assets. Ai Chin Tan, OCBC: On the issue of Danajamin, one fundamental issue that needs to be addressed is making sure...

IFR Malaysian Capital Markets 2010: Part 3

IFR: The government is trying hard to promote FDI. Thomas, do you think this is an initiative that’s going to be successful? Thomas Meow, CIMB: Well, it’s early days. On the ETP, the plan is basically for foreign investment to support something like 25% of the RM1.3trn cost of the programme. That’s quite a bit of FDI. Whether we are able to do that is perhaps beyond the scope of our discussion today. The other problem is even if we are able to attract FDI of that size, there is another probably close to RM1trn to be financed by the capital...

IFR Malaysian Capital Markets 2010: Tables