Asia Pacific

Delivering insights, ideas, solutions and access across the Asia Pacific

Awards & Recognition

  • Best Non Bank Financial Institutions Bank
    The Asset, 2013
  • Rising Star Treasury and Working Capital - China
    The Asset, 2013
  • Best in Treasury and Working Capital MNCs/LLCs - Korea
    The Asset, 2013
  • Rising Star Treasury and Working Capital - Taiwan
    The Asset, 2013
  • Sales Leadership Achievement Awards - Percy Batliwalla
    The Asset, 2013
  • Best China Cash Management Solution - Philips Electronics
    The Asset, 2013
  • Best Regional Liquidity Solution - POSCO
    The Asset, 2013
  • Best India E-Banking Implementation - Preethi Kitchen Appliances
    The Asset, 2013
  • Best Philippines Risk Management Solution - Security Bank Corporation
    The Asset, 2013
  • Asian Investor Service Provider Awards 2012
    2012

Overview

Over 60 Years of Local Partnership

As one of the world's largest financial institutions, Bank of America Merrill Lynch provides comprehensive market, industry, product and strategic advisory expertise to help our clients succeed in Asia and around the globe.

We deliver a powerhouse of knowledge and capabilities to corporations, institutions, governments and individuals representing a broad array of financial goals. Whether you seek to raise, manage, invest or protect capital, or pursue strategic possibilities, we are a leading global provider of sales and trading, corporate and investment banking, capital markets capabilities, and wealth and investment management services.

Understanding the unique complexities of how and where you do business is what makes us a premier financial advisor. For clients in the Asia Pacific region, we offer world-class solutions with more than 60 years of on-the-ground experience. Our broad network in Asia spans 12 countries and territories, five time zones and more than a dozen languages.

Working seamlessly across regions and disciplines, we are committed to delivering the unmatched power of our global franchise to meet your full range of financial objectives.

Capabilities

Financial Markets Expertise

Bank of America Merrill Lynch provides leading liquidity, pricing and execution to more than 3,000 institutional investors and 10,000 issuer clients across the equity, fixed income, derivatives, interest rate, foreign exchange and commodities markets. Our Global Markets group originates, sells and trades financial assets through established trading hubs, exchange memberships and primary dealerships in all the major financial markets across the region.

In addition, we offer financial structuring services including asset and liability management and hedging solutions to both investor and issuer clients, as well as financing, securities clearing, settlement, custody and other institutional prime brokerage services.

Insightful, Objective Research

Making informed decisions is critical to both institutional and individual investors. With more than 800 analysts focusing on three main disciplines, global equity research, global macro research and global credit research, BofA Merrill Lynch Global Research is one of the most respected research organizations in the world. For clients doing business in Asia, we achieve research excellence through the quality of our regional staff and the breadth and depth of our global resources.

Treasury and Liquidity Management

Ranking among the top five corporate bank in Asia, we provide a broad array of innovative solutions and technology to improve your cash flow and efficiency—from corporate lending and liquidity management to international trade services, commercial card services and leasing.

Our Global Corporate Banking client managers partner with product and industry experts to form dedicated client teams that tailor end-to-end solutions to address your greatest challenges. Through CashPro® Online, our new market-leading client portal, we deliver the data, analytics and execution you need to optimize liquidity with greater visibility, efficiency, speed and control.

Capital Raising and Strategic Opportunities

However complex your financial challenges are, Bank of America Merrill Lynch is at the forefront of transformative public and private deals in Asia and beyond. We help companies grow their business drawing on extensive industry and country experience, as well as specialized product expertise in corporate lending, corporate finance and restructuring, mergers & acquisitions and debt, equity and equity-linked capital markets.

Our Asia-based investment banking origination teams are organized by country and include sector specialists focused on financial institutions, financial sponsors, real estate, industrials, healthcare, consumer & retail, telecommunications, media, technology, and energy & power. Together, our industry, country and product experts provide the most insightful, globally connected solutions and advice in the region to help clients achieve their fullest potential.

Wealth and Investment Management

When it comes to helping you manage, build and protect your personal wealth, Merrill Lynch Global Wealth Management offers one of the largest and the most experienced brokerage forces in the world. Our skilled professionals focus on your unique characteristics and requirements to provide the comprehensive wealth structuring, investment management, credit and banking, and other specialized expertise you need to address immediate and longer-term objectives.

Since opening our first private bank office in Hong Kong in 1960, we have expanded our wealth and investment management operations across 12 countries and territories throughout Asia. Key wealth management hubs include Singapore and Hong Kong, and we continue to expand our wealth management services in China and India.

In Japan, wealth management has been conducted by Mitsubishi UFJ Merrill Lynch PB Securities Co., Ltd., a joint venture with the Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, since May 2006. It provides private banking/wealth management products and services to high net worth individuals and mid-sized institutions.

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Perspective

gtnews

Understanding Payments and Hedging in India

India's economy is a key driver of global growth and an increasingly popular location for multinationals. To achieve their objectives around supporting local operations, investing, or trading in rupee, corporate practitioners must understand India's payment system, the benefits of rupee invoicing and the opportunities for hedging.

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Treasury Today

Global Trade Roundtable

What are the key trade issues for the coming year – and more importantly, how will they be managed? Global and regional Heads of Trade from Bank of America Merrill Lynch discuss the topics that matter, providing region-by-region insight for corporate treasurers the world over.

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gtnews

The Key to Unlocking Asia

The pace of regulatory liberalisation of currencies and rules is quickening in Asia Pacific, with reform of the renminbi (RMB) in China in particular, opening the way for integration into regional and global treasury and liquidity structures, potentially lessening the occurrences of trapped cash.

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Article

Gaining the Benefits of Renminbi Liberalisation

As China's currency, the renminbi, becomes steadily more liberalized, international corporates that do business in the country — either as importers or exporters — have significant opportunities to lower costs and reduce foreign currency risk opportunities to lower costs and reduce foreign currency risk through hedging. However, complex rules and multiple forms of the renminbi, in both spot and forward markets, mean that careful planning and ongoing vigilance are essential in order to gain the benefits of renminbi internationalization.

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BAML Webcast

Connecting the world through your global card

The global landscape continues to shift as companies expand beyond their own borders to grow and strengthen their business. Join this Webcast to tap into the global payments landscape and how cards are used and accepted in other regions. Hear how to gain operational efficiency while managing risk and cost. Guest speaker: CareerBuilder

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BAML Podcast

ISO 20022: Traveling the road to global interoperability (podcast series)

As data communication becomes more challenging with the growing advancements in technology, companies are looking for a common understanding of information shared by people and computers. ISO 20022 is a universal payment standard that provides standardized processing, communications and formats across the globe. Guest speakers: Expedia Inc, Cargill Incorporated, and SWIFT

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Report

2012 CFO Outlook Asia

CFOs across Asia are combining optimism with caution – upbeat about the prospects for their own companies in the year ahead, yet mindful of the threats posed by economies in the West – namely the European debt crisis and the U.S. budget deficit.

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Trader Trends

Trading Strategies in Asia – One Size Does Not Fit All

While Asian markets generally have wide bid-offer spreads and high volatility, market microstructure varies between different markets in the region. VWAP and POV still dominate electronic activity, but these "go to" strategies can be enhanced with an effective liquidity seeking strategy.

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