Emmanuel Daniel

Emmanuel Daniel
Founder, The Asian Banker

Emmanuel Daniel (born 3 December 1962 in Kuala Lumpur) is a Singapore-based entrepreneur and model train enthusiast. Daniel founded The Asian Banker in Singapore in September 1996 as a publisher of research and benchmarking, and events catering to the financial services industry. Daniel won the Citibank Excellence in Journalism Award for the Asian region in February 1999 for his work in determining the impact of the Internet on banking.

The Asian Banker Summit, which he launched in 2001 has become the largest annual meeting for commercial banks in the region. The event won the Best Financial Conference for Asia Award in 2012, at the Asian Conference Summit and Awards.

He is the creator of the Excellence in Retail Financial Services programme which benchmarks and ranks retail banks according to operational and service quality since 2001, and is now followed in Asia, Middle East and Africa.

In 2012, Daniel launched Markets & Exchanges, which conducts research on the capital markets industry.

He is interviewed regularly on BBC, Bloomberg and CNBC

Daniel’s personal interviews with global personalities, including chairmen and CEOs of financial institutions, as well as economists, politicians, entertainers, business leaders and writers, are published in The Banking Conversation.

Daniel maintains a blog and speaks at international events around the world.