GLOBAL AWARDS 2o12

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