South East Asia Conference & Awards 2009 - Sponsors

The Bank of New York Mellon acts as depositary for more than 1,300 American and global depositary receipt programs (a 64% market share), representing companies from 64 countries.

Ipreo is a leading provider of high-quality data, intelligence and productivity solutions to investment banking and corporate clients around the world. We offer critical insights and flexible solutions to help our clients run better investor relations programs. Ipreo’s corporate services include: global market intelligence, shareholder and bondholder ID, investor targeting, perception studies, proxy solicitation, and the industry’s premier database of buy-side contacts & investor profiles.

The Investor Relations Professionals Association (Singapore) or IRPAS is an association set up in 2006 by leading investor relations (IR) practitioners with the primary objective of promoting awareness of, and best practices in IR. IRPAS is run by IR Officers (IROs) for IROs and strives to help all IR professionals to improve their IR through education, training and social networking events. In 2009, IRPAS has embarked on a new programme, the IRPAS Seminar Series, in which IRPAS plans to organise IR training seminars that are tailored to the Asian market. In addition, IRPAS also facilitates the sharing of IR knowledge and best practices by working with prestigious institutions and partners to provide research and information for its members.

Nomura is a leading financial services group and the preeminent Asia-based investment bank with worldwide reach. It provides a broad range of innovative solutions tailored to the specific requirements of individual, institutional, corporate and government clients through an international network in more than 30 countries. Based in Tokyo and with regional headquarters in Hong Kong, London and New York, Nomura employs about 26,000 staff worldwide. For further information, please visit www.nomura.com.

Orient Capital enables listed entities to market their equity capital by providing the intelligence to understand their institutional shareholders and the tools to manage their market communications. Over 400 clients throughout the Asia-Pacific region rely on us for accurate and timely share ownership data and in-depth, global institutional market intelligence.

Singapore Exchange (SGX) was inaugurated in 1999, following the merger of the Stock Exchange of Singapore and the Singapore International Monetary Exchange. SGX is Asia-Pacific’s first demutualized and integrated securities and derivatives exchange and is listed on its own bourse. The exchange’s stock is a component of benchmark indices such as the MSCI Singapore’s Free Index and the Straits Times Index. For more information, please visit www.sgx.com.

Standard Chartered’s Wholesale Banking business operates in 70 countries with capabilities spanning across all equity products- cash equities, corporate access, convertible bonds, equity derivatives, capital markets and advisory services.

The Wall Street Journal Asia, established in 1976, has been voted the most "important business reading" among international daily newspapers in Asia in every ABRS/BE:ASIA study since the survey's inception in 1985. The Journal's China staff won a Pulitzer Prize in 2007 for coverage of the consequences of the nation's rapid growth. Edited and published in Hong Kong, The Wall Street Journal Asia is distributed throughout the Asia Pacific region. More than 75% of its subscribers are Asian. The Journal’s web site for Asia is at asia.WSJ.com, the homepage for India is at india.WSJ.com and is published online in Chinese at cn.WSJ.com.