SCMP wins two top honours as State Street’s 2023 Institutional Press Awards return after four-year pause

Enoch Yiu won the top prize in the “Investor Services” category with her May 2023 feature article about the dual-currency stocks on the city’s bourse

Mia Castagnone won the “Best Newcomer” award for her story about how Credit Suisse’s hawker stalls became the signature of its swan song conference

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SCMP’s journalists Enoch Yiu (fourth right, front) and Mia Castagnone (fifth right, front) with their winners’ certificates at State Street Corporation’s 2023 Asia-Pacific Institutional Press Awards at the American Club on November 28, 2023. Photo: State Street

Published: 5:24pm, 28 Nov 2023

South China Morning Post journalists Enoch Yiu and Mia Castagnone won two of the nine top honours at State Street Corporation’s 2023 Asia-Pacific Institutional Press Awards in Hong Kong.

Yiu, a veteran at the Post of almost three decades, won the top prize in the “Investor Services” category with her May 2023 feature article about the dual-currency stocks on the city’s bourse operated by Hong Kong Clearing and Exchanges Limited (HKEX).

Castagnone, who started at the Post as a graduate trainee in June 2021, won the award for “Best Newcomer” for her March 2023 story about how Credit Suisse’s Hong Kong-style hawker stalls became the signature of its swan song investors’ conference, after the bank’s takeover by its rival UBS across the Banhhofstrasse in Zurich.

“Congratulations to the award winners and the highly commended journalists for their quality and professional work over the course of this year,” said Mostapha Tahiri, State Street’s chief executive for the Asia-Pacific, Middle East and North Africa. “We are pleased to host this special event again, which we launched in 2012 to recognise the journalists’ contribution in illuminating the latest developments in the financial world, for both the investment community and public readers.”

SCMP’s Enoch Yiu received the winner’s certificate in the “Investor Services” category at State Street Corporation’s 2023 Asia-Pacific Institutional Press Awards from the awards’ judge Jame DiBiasio on November 28, 2023 at the American Club. Photo: State Street

The award’s panel of seven judges reviewed hundreds of nominations from six Asia-Pacific countries contending for prizes in nine categories in English: Pension, Investment, Technology, Alternatives, Regulation, ESG, Best Editorial Comment, Investor Services and Newcomer. Another five categories were established for entries written in Chinese, comprising Investment, Alternatives, Technology, ESG and Newcomer.

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