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).

Sathorn Series A: Asia Plus Treading Water

IPO Radar: Another Melting Ice Cube on Sathorn Road

Sathorn Series 6: Disappearing Deutsche, Breakaway Brokers

Sathorn Series 9: Surviving the Sunset in Thai Securities

Sathorn Series 8: Bailing Out on the Lil'l Guys

Sathorn Series 7: Twilight of Investment Banking?

Thematic (Sector/Industry)

Thailand Capital markets / Thematic (Sector/Industry)

<p><strong>Big Disruption on Sathorn. </strong>The Thai brokerage industry is in for a big disruption, as Taiwanese broker Yuanta said that they are returning to compete for market leadership after years of absence when their first broker (the market leader at the turn of the millenium) was acquired by Kim Eng, which in turn was acquired by Maybank. Recently, Yuanta paid close to Bt700m for KK Trade, a subsidiary of KKP, and rebranded it as Yuanta Thailand. They managed to poach Boonporn, the co-CEO of Kim Eng who…</p>

Big Disruption on Sathorn. The Thai brokerage industry is in for a big disruption, as Taiwanese broker Yuanta said that they are returning to compete for market leadership after years of absence when their first broker (the market leader at the turn of the millenium) was acquired by Kim Eng, which in turn was acquired by Maybank. Recently, Yuanta paid close to Bt700m for KK Trade, a subsidiary of KKP, and rebranded it as Yuanta Thailand. They managed to poach Boonporn, the co-CEO of Kim Eng who…

Maybank Kim Eng Securities Thailand (MBKET TB)

Sathorn Series 10: The Return of Yuanta