ANZ continues strong regional club loan presence

The Thomson Reuters APAC latest loan league tables, covering the year-to-date to 31 October, have again placed ANZ in the top group for most categories.

For the regional (ex-Japan) mandated arrangers, ANZ is at number two spot with involvement in syndicated loans worth almost US$25 billion during the year to date - blocking a trifecta by three Chinese banks. Sixth, seventh and eighth spots were filled by NAB, CBA and Westpac, respectively.

Among the book runners for the Asia-Pacific region, the same three big Chinese banks  (ICBC, Bank of China and China Development Bank) pushed ANZ and NAB into fourth and fifth spots respectively. Nonetheless, the gap between those two Australian banks' involvement in regional loans was marked - with ANZ acting as bookrunner for nearly US$15.5 billion worth of loans in 80 deals, while NAB was bookrunner for just under US$8.5 billion in loans from 31 deals.

Looking to the syndicated loans table for the Asia region (ex-Japan, ex-Australasia and excluding RMB and Taiwanese currency), of the big Australian banks only ANZ was among the top ten mandated arrangers - at number six on the league table. However ANZ was ranked in second spot on the bookrunners' league table for syndicated and club loans.

In most other regional categories such as North East Asia (excluding Japan), South East Asia and South Asia, ANZ figured in the top ten lists as either mandated arranger or book runner with a market share in all currencies of around 2.5 to three per cent of all loans arranged, by volume.