Two Indians feature in magazine's `Asian Captains of Finance 2010' poll
02 Jul 2010
Aditya Puri, managing director of HDFC Bank Limited and Sam Ghosh, CEO of Reliance Capital, have won nominations as `Asian Captain of Finance 2010' in a poll conducted by `Institutional Investor' magazine.
Amongst the seven business leaders chosen by analysts, four are bankers.
They include Puri from India, Ma Weihua of the China Merchants Bank, Ra Eung Chang of South Korea's Shinhan financial group and Agus Martawardajo of Bank Mandiri, Indonesia.
"There have been stunning changes in the fortunes of the financial industry in recent years. Increasingly, Asian firms are innovators and leaders in their own right, not merely adopters of western practices and products," the magazine said.
The poll surveyed analysts across Asia to identify top financial executives in five sectors, including banks, brokers, asset managers and exchanges, insurance - life and non-life, and real estate investment trusts.
Institutional Investor magazine was established in 1967 and is the flagship publication of London-based financial publisher Euromoney Institutional Investor.
