Country awards: why they won, part two

In May, FinanceAsia named the winners of its Country Banking Achievement Awards for domestic banking in countries across the Asia-Pacific region. Lists of winners are here, here and here.

The competition was extremely tight this year, with numerous financial institutions proving their resilience in a difficult regulatory and banking environment.

Here, we explain in detail the rationale behind the - often very difficult - decisions that our team of judges came to in the awards for  India, Indonesia, Korea, Malaysia, Mongolia, Myanmar, Pakistan and the Philippines. For decisions from Bangladesh, China and Hong Kong, click here. The remainder of the decisions will...