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).

Silicon Stories B: Airbnb...Zero to Hero in the Digital Age

Silicon Stories C: Hey Uber, Need a Lyft?

Thai-Coons (Ep. 3): RBS Logo...Seriously?

Silicon Stories #7: Saving Private Optimus

Thematic (Sector/Industry)

Thailand Consumer discretionary / Thematic (Sector/Industry)

The Taxman Cometh. In Meet Joe Black, Brad Pitt said you can’t run away from death and taxes. So far, lots of Internet companies in Thailand go kapoot, and I’m sure there’s some AI form of the GrimReaper.com waiting for them. But taxes are…ah…different story, because so far, there are no Internet-related taxes yo. Now, that’s gonna change, because the Revenue Dept saw how Indonesia taxed Google up the wazoo. Bangkok has more Facebook users than Jakarta (or LA and New York combined), and…

The Taxman Cometh. In Meet Joe Black, Brad Pitt said you can’t run away from death and taxes. So far, lots of Internet companies in Thailand go kapoot, and I’m sure there’s some AI form of the GrimReaper.com waiting for them. But taxes are…ah…different story, because so far, there are no Internet-related taxes yo. Now, that’s gonna change, because the Revenue Dept saw how Indonesia taxed Google up the wazoo. Bangkok has more Facebook users than Jakarta (or LA and New York combined), and…

Silicon Stories #10: Thailand Taxes the Internet