At our recent Country Awards dinner we awarded Nazir Razak, CEO of CIMB Group, our Lifetime Achievement Award for his contribution to Asian banking and finance. After the awards dinner, we sat down and talked to Nazir about CIMB's rapid growth and his views on banking in Asia. Below is an excerpt from that conversation.
What has been the key to CIMB's positive financial performance over the past year
I think the performance has been pretty consistent with the rest of Malaysian banks. This is fairly surprising to some people, as we have a fairly large business involving capital markets and indeed we are the most active in the global financial markets. We...