FA Awards Edition 2025
Welcome to this special edition of the 2025 print edition of PinanceAsia where we celebrate all the winners of FA's recent Awards.
The edition celebrates and recognises the participants in the FinanceAsia Awards 2025 (see pages 6-48), the FinanceAsia Achievement Awards 2025 (see pages 72-114) and Asia's Best Companies Poll 2025 (see pages 62-70).
As markets slowly recovered after a very tough few years, and interest rates finally started moving downwards in the second half of 2024, there was a flurry of activity across M&A, bonds and equity markets, with some larger deals starting to make a comeback as confidence returned to the region. The backdrop was a host of elections across the world, including in India and the UK, with the culmination of the US election, which brought Donald Trump back to the White House as US president in January 2025.
The Awards saw a large number of entries and competition was fierce, with our expert panels of judges having a difficult job going through the entries, and deciding upon the winners; the number of highly commendeds shows how many close decisions there were. A big thank you to our judges! Also congratulations to the companies and individuals who were awarded Gold, Silver and Bronze ir Asia's Best Companies Poll - who were voted for by analysts and investors.
As geopolitics becomes ever more complex, the fundamentals of the Asia Pacific region remain strong with a growing middle class across Asean, India and China. This means that Asia's capital markets should continue to flourish despite externalities such as US tariffs; H1 2025 IPO activity on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange is testament to that. In addition, the move towards sustainability, digital assets and artificial intelligence (AI) is set to continue apace.
We will continue to report on movements in Apac's capital markets on www.financeasia.com, and send out our regular newsletter direct to your inbox and update FA's Linkedin page; also please look out for FA's market leading events throughout the year.
Finally, we hope you manage to have a nice break in the summer holidays.
