Asean-focused. Ex-Head of Thai Research

Athaporn Arayasantiparb, CFA

Athaporn served as Head of Research for UOB and ANZ in Thailand and was an award-winning telecoms analyst at UBS in 2010 (AsiaMoney Thailand category) and Regional Strategist for DMG in Singapore. Prior to that, he also served as Kasikornbank credit analyst and scholar. He has a total work experience of 22 years, of which 19 were in research and 9 in research management roles. He started his career as an engineer for PTT and currently manages family investments. He holds an MBA from Stern (NYU) and CFA Charter since 2006.

Apart from IPO Radar, which focuses on future listings, MCorp Review also performs financial advisory services for TKC Services and provides 11 other on-going thematic series ranked by frequency in descending order, namely:

1) Snippets (news-driven);
2) Sathorn Series (financial services);
3) Silicon Stories (technology); 
4) Thai-Coons (billionaire origin series);
5) Reality Check (data-driven, investigative);
6) Thai Media Spotlight;
7) Political Pit Stop; 
8) Telecom Review; 
9) Thai Macro Watch (read-through from foreign events);  
10) Small Cap Diary; and
11) Property Grid

There are also 3 limited-time series driven by specific events or locations, namely:
1) Thai Corona Crisis;
2) South Series; and
3) Mechanics and Details (deal forensics).

MONO: Media Giant Meeting Growing Entertainment Demand

MONO (MONO TB): New Content Deals and Growing Online Platforms

Revisiting Thai Media...The Three Musketeers

Equity Bottom-Up

<p><strong>No Smoke Without Fire? Ah...I Dunno This Time, Man. </strong>You know...this is the third time I got a call from one of my former analysts, who are scattered all over Bangkok CBD, to discuss about the potential licensing deal between HBO and <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/4869" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:4869:1">Mono Technology Co Ltd (MONO TB)</a> ever since True Visions said they are likely to break up with Time Warner's HBO. The disturbing thing is that while MONO has never admitted it, everyone seems to assume it's them. There's no one mentioning other channels like…</p>

No Smoke Without Fire? Ah...I Dunno This Time, Man. You know...this is the third time I got a call from one of my former analysts, who are scattered all over Bangkok CBD, to discuss about the potential licensing deal between HBO and Mono Technology Co Ltd (MONO TB) ever since True Visions said they are likely to break up with Time Warner's HBO. The disturbing thing is that while MONO has never admitted it, everyone seems to assume it's them. There's no one mentioning other channels like…

Reality Check 2017: What's With MONO and HBO Yo?