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).

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Asia Capital Group PCL / Equity Bottom-Up

<p>Today, a representative of the BAAC (Bank of Agriculture and Cooperatives) announced on Spring TV news government plans to systematize loan sharks who previously operated outside the law and resisted the government's nano-finance scheme and came up with an alternate <strong>pico-finance</strong> scheme whereby these former loan sharks could enter the scheme and offer loans of no more than Bt50,000 a pop with maximum interest rate of 3% a month (so around 36% a year). Normal microlenders can't charge more than…</p>

Today, a representative of the BAAC (Bank of Agriculture and Cooperatives) announced on Spring TV news government plans to systematize loan sharks who previously operated outside the law and resisted the government's nano-finance scheme and came up with an alternate pico-finance scheme whereby these former loan sharks could enter the scheme and offer loans of no more than Bt50,000 a pop with maximum interest rate of 3% a month (so around 36% a year). Normal microlenders can't charge more than…

Asia Capital Group PCL

Swimming with the Loan Sharks