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CLSA (Credit Lyonnais Securities Asia) is Asia's leading equity brokers and investment groups focused on institutional broking, investment banking and asset management to corporate and institutional clients around the world.〔Gary Coull obituaries: ''The Times'', () ''FT'' () and ''FinanceAsia'' ()〕〔(''Asiamoney'' Poll of Polls 2009 (requires subscription) )〕 Founded in 1986, CLSA (Credit Lyonnais Securities Asia) has its headquarters in Hong Kong and offices or representatives in 15 cities across the Asia-Pacific region, as well as Amsterdam, Boston, Chicago, New York, London and San Francisco. The parent company is CITIC Securities, China's largest brokerage. Unlike most of its competitors, CLSA is a research-driven agency broker.〔(Investopedia definition of agency broker )〕 It’s known for its annual investor forums, and reports and analysis that ‘tells the story’ (a legacy of the journalism background of its founders). == History == In 1986, Winfull Laing & Cruickshank Securities began operations in Hong Kong, with former business journalist Jim Walker as chairman. The small brokerage was a 50-50 joint venture between the Woo Hon Fai family and Alexander Laing & Cruickshank. Walker was soon joined by two other former journalists: Gary Coull, as head of the dealing room, and Malcolm Surry, as head of research. All three had worked at the ''South China Morning Post''; neither Coull nor Surry had any experience in brokering. The following year, Crédit Lyonnais acquired Alexander Laing & Cruickshank and, after various iterations, Walker’s start-up emerged in 1989 as Credit Lyonnais Securities (Asia). But relations with the French giant – which was about to be engulfed by a series of major financial scandals – soon became ‘impossible’, according to Coull, and he and Walker resigned. They were persuaded to return in exchange for a 35% stake in the company and guarantees of independence. CLSA was majority owned (65%) by Crédit Agricole, France’s largest retail-banking group, with the remainder held by staff, until 2012. That year, Crédit Agricole sold a 19.9 percent stake to the Chinese firm CITIC Securities.〔(Citic Securities’ Shares Slump on Planned $1.3 Billion Deal for CLSA )〕 On July 31, 2013, CITIC Securities acquired the remaining 80.1% of CLSA from Crédit Agricole to become the majority shareholder of CLSA. Controversies that have hit the firm include the Securities and Futures Commission reprimand in May 2004; ''Asiamoney'' “vote-rigging” email in 2005; and Allen Lam insider-trading conviction in July 2009〔(SFC reprimand )〕〔(''Asiamoney'': CLSA talks about that email (requires subscription) )〕〔(''FT'': Ex-CLSA banker admits HK insider trade )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「CLSA」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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