COVER STORY 20 FINANCEASIA JULY / AUGUST 2015 FINANCEASIA.COM COVER STORY By FinanceAsia reporters inanceAsia’s 2015 honour roll of the most influential women across the Asia FPacific region spans investment bank- ing and commercial bankers. We also bring you leading women in new ar- eas of finance such as Fintech where Asian companies are among the fastest-growing in the world. FinanceAsia also canvased corporate fin- anciers for exceptional women working in deal advisory including lawyers and accountants. We wanted to include women from across the region and admit we found this easier in China and Australia than say Korea and Japan. There is also a positive skew in the re- sults towards FinanceAsia’s own area of ex- pertise, corporate finance. FA FINANCEASIA.COM JULY / AUGUST 2015 FINANCEASIA 21 COVER STORY KELLY BAYER Delivering products that year. The division also achieved established software help companies to achieve a 9% increase in average companies. She is a Master of ROSMARIN their targets and increase lending balances and a 9% Science graduate from profits is the driving aspiration boost in average deposit Stanford University. COMMONWEALTH behind Kelly Bayer Rosmarin in balances, clocking up 41 new “I inherited a healthy BANK OF AUSTRALIA her role as head of institutional transaction banking mandates business with a strong track GROUP EXECUTIVE banking and markets at the in 2014. record in customer satisfaction FOR INSTITUTIONAL Commonwealth Bank of Big clients include Telstra, but since then we have focused BANKING AND MARKETS Australia. Woolworths, Origin Energy, heavily on using technology to Bayer Rosmarin’s team of Transurban, Queensland give clients more granular and about 1,500 staff across nine Motorways, and the Scentre insightful information about countries generates nearly 15% Group. “I like to see people in how their businesses operate,” of CBA’s group profits. They business fulfil their potential Bayer Rosmarin said. provide services to large and use our products and Her team’s achievements in corporate, government, and services to make their the past 12 months include institutional clients covering businesses more successful,” being selected by the debt capital markets, loan said the veteran banker. Queensland state government syndication, project and Bayer Rosmarin took on her to provide whole of structured finance, foreign current role in January 2014 government banking services exchange, commodity and after heading corporate for the next five years; being interest rate products, and banking solutions at CBA. She mandated lead arranger and transactional banking. joined the bank in 2004. Prior swap bank on Newcastle Port’s Last financial year the to that she was a management A$875 million syndicated division reported revenues of consultant with the Boston facilities; and being the only A$2.7 billion and an after-tax Consulting Group and also domestic lead arranger for the profit of A$1.3billion, which was spent time in Silicon Valley financing of the A$2.1 billion a 5% increase on the previous working for start-ups and Sydney Light Rail Project. CATHRYN CARVER ANZ SENIOR MANAGING DIRECTOR, INTERNATIONAL AND INSTITUTIONAL BANKING ANZ is the only Australian Resources, Fosun’s A$474 high-level agreements will Council of Australia, Jennifer bank with a stated aim of million purchase of Roc Oil, begin to bear fruit for ANZ’s Westacott. making meaningful profits in and New Hope’s acquisitions international and institutional “These high-level Asia, placing Cathryn Carver in the agricultural sector. In banking division. In November agreements put ANZ in the at the pointy end of the bank’s each case ANZ acted for the last year she was part of a path of future deals,” Carver strategic vision. Carver is foreign buyer as an adviser small group that spearheaded said. “To be successful in responsible for key and/or provider of acquisition two memorandums of banking you have to find a international and institutional finance. understanding between ANZ, balance between making banking client relationships “We bridge the cultural China Development Bank, money today and laying within Australia and Asia and divide, bringing a sound Baosteel, and Aurizon. the groundwork for is determined to add new, knowledge of Australian She is a board member making money large Asian clients to the practices to foreign clients,” of China’s Bank of tomorrow.” bank’s roster. Carver said. Tianjin (an ANZ As a woman she brings In the six months to end Carver spent the majority of partner) and deputy an added element of March ANZ generated 21% of her career at Macquarie Bank chair of the newly collaboration to her its profits from Asia-Pacific, before moving to Westpac formed Australian role. “Control and Europe, and America, up from where she was general Sino Association command aren’t 16% three years ago, and manager of corporate finance 100 — an effective on their bringing the bank closer to its and head of capital markets. agricultural own. You have to be 2017 target of deriving 25% to She joined ANZ in 2005, alliance between attuned to people 30% of its group profits from running corporate finance, Australia and and be able to offshore. then global capital markets, China, chaired motivate them to Several landmark deals which included a two-year by Fortescue deliver for helped along the way such as stint in the Hong Kong office. founder Andrew themselves and the Baosteel’s A$1.4 billion ($1.07 Carver is hopeful that a Forrest and head bank,” she told billion) acquisition of Aquila number of recently signed of the Business FinanceAsia. 22 FINANCEASIA JULY / AUGUST 2015 FINANCEASIA.COM COVER STORY REIKO HAYASHI BANK OF AMERICA MERRILL LYNCH HEAD OF JAPAN GLOBAL CAPITAL MARKETS Reiko Hayashi is in our list for her work on market-defining transactions in Japan’s debt markets. Hayashi was heavily involved in bringing to market debt financing for the $16 billion Suntory acquisition of US distiller Beam. The acquisition was the third-largest cross-border purchase by a Japanese company and symbolic of Japan Inc. expanding overseas in search of growth. Hayashi also worked on Development Bank of Japan’s landmark €250 million green bond, the first by a Japanese firm, and is promoting this socially responsible asset class to other Japanese corporates. Her deal-making skills has led to promotion through the ranks at Bank of America Merrill Lynch. In 2014 she was named Japan head of global capital markets. Before that Hayashi was made head of Japan debt capital markets in 2011 and head of Japan Public Sector Origination in 2006, having previously overseen corporate and public finance WEI SUN CHRISTIANSON within debt capital markets and risen from the trading floor over MORGAN STANLEY the course of a 25-year career in banking. CO-CEO OF ASIA-PACIFIC EX-JAPAN AND CHINA CEO; Hayashi is a member of Bank of America Merrill Lynch’s MEMBER OF THE GLOBAL MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE diversity and inclusion council aimed at encouraging talented women to go for promotion. Christianson as co-chief listing. Morgan Stanley She is an advocate of flexible working hours for women in executive officer of Asia ranked fourth in Dealogic’s banking. That is reflected in her team, which includes several Pacific ex-Japan helped to China M&A advisory ranking mothers who enjoy flexible work hours. drive Morgan Stanley’s strong as of mid-June. revenue growth across the The mother of three is region in 2014 and so far this passionate about diversity reported year. and childcare. Christianson Christianson is also CEO of spoke at the Summer Davos in China, which has enjoyed the 2013 to discuss female region’s highest revenue leadership and gender parity. growth over the past year. She joined Facebook’s chief Since becoming the firm’s operating officer Sheryl China head in 2006, Sandberg in Beijing last Christianson has coordinated September to discuss equality with multiple domestic in the workplace. She also regulators to successfully delivered the keynote speech build out Morgan Stanley’s at the Hong Kong Stock China onshore businesses Exchange on increasing Under Christianson’s women’s roles in decision- leadership, Morgan Stanley making. Since 2008, has broadened its onshore Christianson has been an footprint in China to include active participant in the domestic securities and bond various annual volunteering underwriting, commercial programs at Beijing Children’s banking, asset management, Hospital. trust services, and renminbi- She serves on the board of denominated private equity Estee Lauder and is a member investing. of the advisory committee of Morgan Stanley also the Securities and Futures advised WH Group on its $7 Commission of Hong Kong, as billion acquisition of well as a member of the Smithfield Foods and Shenzhen Stock Exchange’s Alibaba’s $25 billion New York strategic planning committee. FINANCEASIA.COM JULY / AUGUST 2015 FINANCEASIA 23 COVER STORY GOLDMAN SACHS HEAD OF MER- CHANT BANKING, ASIA PACIFIC EX JAPAN When Stephanie Hui first joined Goldman Sachs in 1995 she only planned to stay one year. Having just graduated from Harvard with a biology degree, Hui took a job at the US bank to help pay for medical STEPHANIE HUI school. But she quickly took to Wall Street and enjoyed meeting young business people to hear their pitches. “Every week I would see 10 to 15 entrepreneurs, all with their exciting ideas and passionate attitudes about whatever they were doing. They were so eager to share with us how brilliant their company would become,” Hui told FinanceAsia. “Some of them were living pay-check to pay-check and are now [millionaires] or even billionaires. It’s been amazing to watch their journeys.” Fast-forward 20 years and Hui is head of merchant banking for Asia Pacific ex VIVIEN HSU WOAN-MEEI Japan for Goldman Sachs, overseeing approximately $3 billion-worth of FUBON FINANCIAL HOLDINGS investments in small- to large-size PRESIDENT companies.