Affin Hwang Capital is a leading investment banking, securities, asset management and trustee group in Malaysia.

Founded in 1970, our business has a wide domestic coverage and strategic network throughout Malaysia, as well as strategic partnerships across Asia; providing greater reach in the Asian and global markets for institutional equities trading.

From both the primary offices in Kuala Lumpur and Penang, our one-stop offering of all advisory and capital markets services serves a full client spectrum of corporates, investment institutions, retail clients, high-net-worth individuals and capital markets counterparties.

We value long-term relationships with clients, emphasizing trust, flexibility, collaboration and independent thinking. As one of Malaysia’s leading independent bank-backed investment banking groups, we utilize our expertise to continually tackle the most compelling financial challenges and deliver pioneering solutions to our clients. We commit people and ideas to help clients grow.

Affin Hwang Capital is part of the Affin Banking Group. To learn more, visit www.affinhwang.com.

BANK RAKYAT

Bank Rakyat was established on the 28th September 1954 under the Cooperative Ordinance and has now established a reputation as the biggest Islamic cooperative bank in Malaysia. The transformation in 2002 of the bank from a conventional banking system to a banking system based on Shariah has enabled the bank to record encouraging profits year after year.

We continue to expand our product range and customer facilities that are varied and innovative. The products and facilities include consumer banking, commercial financing, savings and investments as well as financial planning products to satisfy the many demands of a wide spectrum of modern-day customers.

We have received various accolades as an industry player and an outstanding cooperative organization in Malaysia as well as internationally.

To date, we have 147 branches with more than 1,000 automated teller machines and cash deposit machines and 184 Ar-Rahnu X’Change outlets nationwide. Bank Rakyat also operates a contact centre, tele-Rakyat, that can be reached at 1-300-80-5454 (toll-free) and the iRakyat internet banking service at www.irakyat.com.my. We can also be reached via Facebook at www.facebook.com/myBANKRAKYAT and Instagram at instagram.com/myBANKRAKYAT.

CIMB Islamic Bank, licensed under Malaysia’s Islamic Financial Services Act 2013, is the main operating entity of the CIMB Group’s global Islamic banking and finance franchise. It operates in parallel with the group’s universal banking platform where it offers Shariah compliant products and services to the group’s wholesale banking, consumer banking, commercial banking and asset management businesses.

CIMB Islamic’s products and operations are managed in strict compliance with Shariah principles under the guidance of the CIMB Islamic Board Shariah Committee, which comprises some of the world’s leading Shariah experts or scholars. CIMB Islamic provides comprehensive and innovative Shariah compliant financial products and services to meet the needs of individuals, small and medium-scale enterprises as well as large institutional customers.

CIMB Group’s Islamic banking and finance business is supported by the group’s network of over 39,000 staff in 16 countries comprising an experienced senior management team and a global team of Islamic banking and financial services professionals in all core components of the Islamic banking and financial services market. CIMB Group also has the most extensive retail branch network in ASEAN, with more than 900 branches as at the 31st December 2016. Outside of Malaysia, CIMB Islamic operates a universal offering in Indonesia and Singapore with a focus in wholesale banking in the other 14 countries.

Codebase Technologies builds modern digital banks, developing application programming interface-driven technologies to deliver new customer experiences. Supporting institutions with cloud-agnostic digital-ready solutions, it operates as a research and development think tank that enables any business to pursue their ambitions for a seamlessly integrated, lifestyle-enhancing digital financial experience at a fraction of the time and cost.

Its highly robust and scalable open architecture framework and flagship platform ensemble, Digibanc™, the most comprehensive one-stop shop ‘bank in a box’, gives Codebase Technologies the key to unlock the true potential of the new-era digital financial ecosystem.

With solutions encompassing customer onboarding, middleware, payments, asset management and channel deployments, Codebase Technologies provides the expertise that allows your business to focus on what’s important — the customer.

Codebase Technologies operates across ASEAN, the GCC and Australia, providing proprietary technology products and advisory services to institutions looking to challenge the next digital frontier.

Eternal Asset Management (EAM) is an Australia-based investment manager that specializes in ultra ethical and socially responsible investments, particularly Shariah compliant investments. It prides itself in being an ethical investment manager that establishes and grows world-class investment funds.
EAM’s goal is to build long-term wealth by investing in an ethical manner, without compromising the values and beliefs of its clients who are invested in a broad range of active strategies across equities, compliant income, multi-assets, alternatives and real estate.
Providing ethical and Shariah compliant investment opportunities enable EAM to not only capture financial returns for clients but also to realize intrinsic returns not replicated elsewhere.

IdealRatings was incorporated in 2006 in San Francisco with a corporate objective to provide SRI/ESG and Shariah compliant solutions to ethical investors and enable them to identify such instruments across different asset classes in the global market. IdealRatings serves clients in over 30 countries with a range of capital market solutions including:

• Equities – A web-based platform covering over 40,000 stocks, where fund managers can screen equities using different, custom-built ESG/SRI/Responsible Investments and Shariah rulebooks or guidelines. This solution caters to different purification calculation methodologies with a comprehensive set of reports for fund managers to manage their portfolio.

• REITs – Global coverage of all listed REITs that could be screened in accordance with different standard Shariah rulebooks or guidelines.

• Indexes – Co-branded and jointly marketed by FTSE-Russell Indexes and a separate series with Thomson Reuters for the global markets, designed for fund management and investment benchmarking. In addition, IdealRatings is able to provide custom-built indexes for the fund management industry.

• Sukuk – A unique solution which includes the global Sukuk and a pioneering Sukuk-screening solution that enables fund managers to customize their Sukuk selection in accordance to their Shariah rulebook, guidelines or investment preference, and

• Brokerage – The solution provides broking houses the ability to screen global equity markets, a technical analysis of the markets and equities, buy/sell/hold recommendations and purification amounts.

Nomura Islamic Asset Management (NIAM) was established in November 2008 to serve as the global Islamic hub for the Nomura Asset Management (NAM) Group internationally, to provide Shariah compliant investment solutions to our clients worldwide. In the short period since our inception, we have successfully built ourselves as one of the largest Islamic fund management boutiques in the world by assets under management size, and have been ranked among the world’s top 25 largest for the past four consecutive years by Asian Investor.

NIAM is a full-suite investment management office, with capabilities developed for portfolio management, research, and Shariah compliance monitoring for the Islamic equity and Sukuk asset classes, with regional and global coverage. We tailor our Shariah investment solutions to meet the needs of our diverse clientele, including prominent institutions globally, such as central banks, pension funds, financial institutions and corporations. Our investments are in strict adherence and accordance with Shariah principles under the guidance of our panel of Shariah advisors who are among the industry’s preeminent and most experienced Shariah experts or scholars.

In partnership with local and international industry players, we are avid participants in focused initiatives to promote Shariah investing across various markets. We have been involved in various consultations and dialogues with regulators and government bodies to promote a better understanding and support of Islamic investment solutions, not just in Malaysia, but also notably, in Brunei, Indonesia and the Middle East.

Even prior to the establishment of NIAM, we have been in the Islamic asset management space via our local conventional sister company, Nomura Asset Management Malaysia, which has been managing Shariah mandates since 2007. In addition to our adherence to Shariah standards, the NAM Group as a whole is also a signatory of the United Nation Principles for Responsible Investing, and as such we incorporate responsible investment principles into our investment approach.

The RFI Foundation – the industry body for the responsible finance sector

The RFI Foundation has been established with the aim of bringing together various forms of responsible finance practices, encouraging consensus as the basis for convergence between standards, practices and regulations. To do so in an effective manner, financial services must find and share a guiding principle for financial services which is most beneficial when the best ideas are incorporated from various forms of responsible finance, including Islamic finance.

After the financial crisis, it was apparent that the link between risk and reward had been broken and needed to be rebuilt with ethics and morals at its heart. The financial crisis illustrated in stark fashion that ethics and business are not adversaries and that ultimately they need each other.

It is within this context that responsible finance practices can play a powerful role in shaping the future of the global economy. There are various definitions and practices encapsulating the responsible finance sector. These include sustainable, responsible and impact investing (SRI), environmental, social and governance and Islamic finance, which is a form of financial intermediation in which funds are raised and applied using asset-based methods or partnerships in accordance with Islamic law instead of lending and borrowing.

The guiding principle that is shared among all forms of responsible finance is an appreciation that financial services can be a force, and indeed are necessary for sustainable development.

A major opportunity for the RFI is to expand responsible finance by incorporating the positive screening strengths of the SRI industry with the governance and regulatory advances of Islamic finance, and thereby engage asset owners and institutional investors who drive financial services development in a more coherent and unified approach.

S&P Global Ratings is the world’s leading provider of independent credit ratings. Our ratings are essential to driving growth, providing transparency and helping educate market participants so they can make decisions with confidence. We have more than one million credit ratings outstanding on government, corporate, financial sector and structured finance entities and securities. We offer an independent view of the market built on a unique combination of broad perspective and local insight. We provide our opinions and research about relative credit risk; market participants gain independent information to help support the growth of transparent, liquid debt markets worldwide.

S&P Global Ratings is a division of S&P Global (NYSE: SPGI), which provides essential intelligence for individuals, companies and governments to make decisions with confidence. For more information, visit www.spglobal.com/ratings.

ADNAN SUNDRA & LOW was established in August 1975 and has operated under its present name since 1982. We celebrated our 40 th anniversary in 2015 and have been consistently ranked as a premier law firm in Malaysia with capabilities spanning multiple practice areas, including banking and finance, Islamic and conventional capital markets, civil aviation, corporate and commercial, dispute resolution, Islamic finance and real estate.

We have a traditionally strong track record in advising on finance and corporate matters and are experienced in negotiating, structuring and documenting complex and innovative financial and corporate structures, both Islamic and conventional. We have advised on many market-leading capital markets transactions, such as the first stapled securities issuance in Malaysia and the world’s first perpetual Sukuk and are privileged to have received the following awards in recognition of our practice :-

Malaysian Law Firm Of The Year
ALB Malaysia Law Awards 2016

Islamic Finance Law Firm Of The Year
ALB Malaysia Law Awards 2016

Banking and Financial Services Law Firm of the Year
ALB Malaysia Law Awards 2014, 2015 and 2016

Ijarah, Wakalah, Real Estate, Perpetual Sukuk , Equity & IPO,
Project & Infrastructure and Turkey Deals Of The Year
IFN Deals Of The Year 2015