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).

The Army-Democrat Alliance Challenges Thaksinite Hegemony

Sathorn Series C: Revisiting Thai Insurance

Sathorn Series 4: Reading McKinsey, Investing Insurance

Reality Check III: Is This Time to Sell Thai Property?

Snippets#2: Most Profitable Bank's Best Year

Equity Bottom-Up

TMB seems to have stole the rug from under Thailand’s banking titanSCB recently when it inked a 15-year selling agent deal with FWD Insurance worth Bt24bn, but SCB is also said to be hatching plans of its own (and potentially cooler one) with Allianz. Bankassurance, a model in which insurance companies use bank staff to sell their policies rather than insurance agent, is a highly profitable one that has inspired some of the world’s biggest deals in financial services such as the Citi-Travelers…

TMB seems to have stole the rug from under Thailand’s banking titanSCB recently when it inked a 15-year selling agent deal with FWD Insurance worth Bt24bn, but SCB is also said to be hatching plans of its own (and potentially cooler one) with Allianz. Bankassurance, a model in which insurance companies use bank staff to sell their policies rather than insurance agent, is a highly profitable one that has inspired some of the world’s biggest deals in financial services such as the Citi-Travelers…

TMB Vs SCB: Bancassurance Ain't Big Enough for the Two of Us!

Siam Commercial Bank

TMB Vs SCB: Bancassurance Ain't Big Enough for the Two of Us!