HSC – BEST INVESTMENT BANK IN VIETNAM 2020

HCMC, 03 July 2020, Ho Chi Minh City Securities Corporation (HSC) named as "Best Investment Banking in Vietnam 2020", voted by Alpha Southeast Asia magazine.

Alpha Southeast Asia is a prestigious financial magazine for institutional investors and fund management companies in Southeast Asia. The award is evaluated based on the comprehensive financial advisory capacity of financial institutions in Southeast Asia, including capital market services, debt market services, M&A services as well as other corporate financial advisory services ...

This year, HSC surpassed other securities companies in Vietnam to win "Best Investment Bank 2020", affirming HSC's name in the map of financial advisory services.

HSC’s Financial advisory services include: M&A advisory (M&A), Debt Capital Market (bond issuance), Equity Capital Markets (listing, IPO). This is also a key business of HSC's strategy in the next 5-year. Based on available strengths such as distribution and analysis services, market making capability.

For 2020, HSC targets Financial Advisory services revenue to reach VND 66 billion. Despite the fact that capital market in 2020 has difficulties when the listed deals, new IPOs have mostly moved to the second half of the year, M&A activities are expected to recover or even increase post Covid-19. In addition to on-going and in-pipeline projects, HSC is also pitching new opportunities in both debt and equity markets as attempt to increase corporate finance advisory revenue in the following quarters of 2020.

Facing these difficulties, HSC has refined, built and been persistent with our business strategy:

• Focusing on advisory activities that are less affected by short-term capital market volatility, such as merger and acquisition advisory (M&A), private placement advisory (stocks, bonds). In addition, continue to seek and be ready to deploy advisory transactions related to the initial public offering (IPO), listing procedures, etc.
• Continuing to build a team of creative and dynamic consultants who have both domestic and global experiences. The team will be specialized toward each potential industries for which HSC also has reputation over the years such as: banking, insurance, real estate, consumer-retail, healthcare, education, etc.
• Strengthen cooperation with regional and global consulting units on large-scale consultancy transactions.

Mr. Pham Ngoc Bich, Managing Director of Financial advisory services shared: “At HSC, the trust we have from both the company & the investor thanks to our professionalism is considered to be the most important foundation for our business development. The short-term challenges for the market due to the coronavirus pandemic can be seen as opportunities for corporate finance business in the medium and long-term. We forecast that after the pandemic, there will be a boom in the number of M&A deals & private placement deals related to industry consolidation in particular and the economy restructure in general. Therefore, we continue to expand and strengthen our relationships with potential customers, recruit high quality personnel, enhance internal cross-selling cooperation to optimize implementation capacity and service quality.”