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Global Winner Winner Global Winner<br />
Asset Service Provider of the Year<br />
Caceis Investor Services<br />
Pascal Hernalsteen<br />
Head of Private Equity & Real Estate<br />
CACEIS Bank Luxembourg<br />
5 Allée Scheffer L-2520 Luxembourg<br />
Tel. +352 4767 2390 - Mob. +352 621 99 2390<br />
Pascal.Hernalsteen@caceis.com www.caceis.com<br />
CACEIS ranks among the top tier of asset servicing providers worldwide and is Europe’s largest depositary bank<br />
and premier fund administrator. We handle administrative aspects of clients’ activities with speed, efficiency<br />
and precision to allow them greater focus on their core business. With a strong yet steady growth rate in terms<br />
of assets, clients and geographical coverage, and the solid support of our principal shareholder Crédit Agricole,<br />
CACEIS is a reliable partner for your business.<br />
Fully dedicated to corporate and institutional clients, the Group’s international dimension and asset servicing expertise<br />
have become a key source of competitive advantage. Notwithstanding our network of offices spanning Europe, North<br />
America and Asia, CACEIS’s experience of servicing clients worldwide makes us the partner of choice for your international<br />
development plans.<br />
The three elements that define CACEIS are financial strength, innovative products and services, and a clear focus on<br />
helping drive clients’ business forward. These enable us to remain among the leading global players in asset servicing.<br />
As an experienced global service provider for private equity and real estate funds, CACEIS’s dedicated team provides<br />
clients, ranging from small boutiques to some of the world’s largest financial institutions, with assistance and customised<br />
solutions for a broad spectrum of structures, strategies, sectors and countries of investment, from the initial plan to set<br />
up a fund, through to its daily administrative needs.<br />
By combining specific private equity & real estate services with CACEIS’s solid custody and administration services, we<br />
give managers and investors the confidence to create and invest in new vehicles, thereby adding real value to their business.<br />
Bank of China<br />
Bank of China Head Office Building<br />
No. 1,<br />
Fuxingmennei Dajie,<br />
Xicheng District<br />
Beijing, 100818, China<br />
www.boc.cn<br />
Leading Financier of the Year<br />
ank of China Limited (BOC) is one of the big four state-owned commercial banks of the People’s Republic of<br />
China. It was founded in 1912 by the Government of the Republic of China to replace the Government Bank of<br />
Imperial China. It is currently the oldest remaining bank in China.<br />
The BOC has over RMB6,951.68 billion in assets making it a frequent feature in the Fortune Global 500 for the past<br />
17 years. They are the second largest lender in China overall, and the largest lender to non-institutions and foreign<br />
exchange.<br />
As the most internationalised and diversified bank in China, the BOC provides a full range of financial services in<br />
China’s mainland, Hong Kong, Macau and 31 other countries. It mainly operates the commercial banking business<br />
including corporate banking, personal banking and financial market business. It also conducts investment banking business<br />
via its wholly-owned subsidiary, Bank of China International Holdings Limited, as well as the insurance services via<br />
another wholly-owned subsidiary Bank of China Group Insurance Company Limited and its subordinate and associate<br />
companies.<br />
Bank of China is also engaged in fund management services via Bank of China Investment Management Co. Ltd., direct<br />
investment and investment management via Bank of China Group Investment Limited, its wholly-owned subsidiary,<br />
and aircraft leasing via Bank of China Aviation Private Limited.<br />
Corporate LiveWire has selected Bank of China as its winner of Leading Financier. China’s banks are among the biggest<br />
and most profitable financial institutions in the world and following the announcement of first quarter report for 2012,<br />
this year looks set to be a prosperous one for the Bank of China. The BOC has achieved a balanced performance in all<br />
business lines in the first quarter, providing a solid base for the healthy business development for the full year.<br />
The first quarter has seen the BOC achieve profit after tax of RMB38.447 billion which is an increase of 9.82% compared<br />
with the same period of the previous year. They have also continued to strengthen its marketing activities, expand<br />
customer base, enhance outlet efficiency and achieve stable growth in customer deposits. Total deposits from customers<br />
amounted to RMB9,517,098 billion, an increase of RMB699.137 billion or 7.93% from the end of 2011.<br />
The bank have successfully implemented the prudent monetary policy and the requirement of macro-economic adjustment,<br />
and supported a reasonable credit supply, promoting the steady and balanced development of its business loan.<br />
We at Corporate LiveWire would like to congratulate Bank of China on reaching its 100 year anniversary early in 2012,<br />
and wish it all the success in their continued development over the proceeding 100 years.<br />
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