Kuala Lumpur, 18^th January 2001.

InvestmentBankAsia.com makes its debut at  the first Asia Pacific Venture Capital Entrepreneurs’ Expo & Conference at the Kuala Lumpur Hilton today.

About InvestmentBankAsia.com

InvestmentBankAsia.com is Asia’s first unique open-ended financial portal, providing a market place through the internet, enabling Startup Entrepreneurs seeking financing, direct access to Investors, Venture Capitalists and Angels. It is also a virtual Financial Exchange enabling Buyers direct access to Sellers of private equity businesses (Mergers and Acquisitions, joint-venture transactions).

InvestmentBankAsia.com provides the virtual platform of one-stop  Financial Services  that enables entrepreneurs from small and medium enterprises (SME’s), small manufacturing industries (SMI’s), small and medium businesses (SMB’s), women entrepreneurs, startup companies, scientists and innovators direct access to Financial institutions, Banks, Investors, Venture Capitalists and  Angels seeking investment opportunities in Asia.

We believe that entrepreneurial business is the fundamental sphere of the Asian  commerce. It is the most dynamic, the most productive, and filled with the most potential. At the same time, we also recognize that this crucial business segment often finds itself denied access to funds and other resources at the very time it needs these to develop and flourish. We hope to fill this need by creating a platform for direct access to sources of capital and sophisticated financial services to moderately-sized business. InvestmentBankAsia.com provides  Entrepreneurs the opportunity to work with the top specialists in a professional environment.

InvestmentBankAsia.com’s integrated team of professionals bring decades of extensive experience in corporate finance and industry. All of our Directors and Officers have had extensive international diversified professional and industrial experiences. They have engaged in highly sophisticated transactions and business operations. Their combined diverse experience, along with wide-ranging relationships throughout the worlds of finance and commerce, create an entity of great power and resource for the moderately sized business enterprise.

InvestmentBankAsia.com is a Financial Exchange that provides full Directories of Banks and  Financial Institutions of all the 10 ASEAN countries, International Investment Banks;  International and Regional Investors and Venture Capitalists; new ideas and knowledge, new business opportunities that are seeking funding for start-ups.

It also provides resources of research information on each of the ASEAN countries, such as country, investment guidelines, policies and incentives,  to assist foreign Investors in their decision-making. It provides tools and resources to assist Entrepreneurs in preparing their Business Plans, and tools that evaluate each project based on its tangible and intangible resources from Financial, Human Resources, Business Plan, Business Model, Marketing Plan and Networking, Intellectual Capital to Brand Name. 

The evaluation tools provides a rating and performance indicators on each  project that would assist the Investor or the Venture Capitalist in their investment decision making.

InvestmentBankAsia.com is a powerful platform for  Entrepreneurs with new ideas and business ventures, seeking  new funding  to enable these ideas to be commercialized. InvestmentBankAsia.com provides a fusion of a world of IDEAS and KNOWLEDGE with a world of FINANCIAL resources.

This business model has already proven to be a successful and powerful tool  in the United States.  The first such model was only introduced in England in June 2000.

InvestmentBankAsia.com is the first financial model in Asia that offers such an integrated and comprehensive financial services in Asia.

Our Goal

“ To meet the challenges of the 21^st Century of Globalization and Information Technology, is to become a knowledge-creating or knowledge-intensive organization.

Globalization means capital is free to move across national borders and is available for investment in new ideas, products or services.

The 21st Century knowledge organization will be "virtual" with communication and networking through digital technology.

To meet these formidable challenges, InvestmentBankAsia.com creates the opportunities and the platform to enable us to achieve the goal of becomKnowledge workers are the key creative professionals who will be the brainpower of the intelligent business." – Knowledge Management and Virtual Organizations – Lead Author & Editor : Dr. Yogesh Malhotra, founder and chief knowledge architect of www.brint.com ) ing a Knowledge-Creating or Knowledge-Intensive Organization.

InvestmentBankAsia.com enables Globalization of capital access; provides cutting edge Information Technology; Information and Knowledge Resources; Digital Networking linking Entrepreneurs with Intellectual Capital,  to Investors and Venture Capital Companies with Financial Resources.

The Need For Such An Asian Financial Exchange

This project is created and driven by a dire need for such an Exchange in Asia which is still not available amidst the phenomenal worldwide growth of  private-equity and venture-capital investment.

“ Worldwide PRIVATE-EQUITY AND VENTURE-CAPITAL INVESTMENT, driven by booming technology and telecom sectors, jumped 65% in 1999 to around
$136 billion--0.5% of world GDP--according to a report from
PricewaterhouseCoopers and 3i.”  - (Economist.com October 14^th – 20^th 2000)

Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) into Asia shows staggering reports :

According to The National Economic Action Council’s statement 3^rd Oct. 2000 :  Malaysia attracted USD 400 million foreign direct investment funds (FDI) from USA alone in the first 6 months of 2000.

Total US direct investments in Asia for first 6 month in 2000 :

	Million USD
Singapore	2,390
Malaysia	400
Philippines	34
Thailand	232
China	305
Total	USD 3,361 m
Projected for year 2000	USD 6,722 m
Add Korea’s projection	9,000 m
Total projection Asia 2000	USD 15,722 m

(The biggest volume of foreign M & A’s into an Asian country involved Korea where the 1999 total was USD 9 billion. – United Nations Report - The Star 4.10.2000.)

Synchronizes with National Vision & Goal

Our vision, our objective, our goal synchronizes with our Malaysian Government’s national vision and direction towards building  knowledge-based industries and economy. Our project fits in perfectly within our Malaysian government‘s  drive  and emphasis in developing Information and Communication Technology (ICT) industries, with  their continuous support in allocating generous funds in this area.

It is encouraging that the 2000/2001 National Budget that has just been announced has allocated a RM 500 million fund for promoting the Venture Capital Industry.

The proposed One-Stop agency to formulate, co-ordinate and monitor the development of the Venture Capital Industry under the Ministry of Finance is very much welcomed, and urgently needed.

About the 3-Exchanges.com

(www.3-Exchanges.com)

The 3-Exchanges.com is a strategic partnership between :

1.      InvestmentBankAsia.com ( A Financial Exchange )

2.      KWX.Asia.com ( A Knowledge Worker Exchange )

3.      IdeasAsia.com ( An Ideas Exchange )

InvestmentBankAsia.com is founded by a group of multi-national professionals under Digital Hub Sdn Bhd, a privately incorporated company in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, in July 2000.

KWX Sdn Bhd, a Knowledge Management company, is a wholly owned subsidiary of Multimedia Development Corporation , the developer of Multimedia Super Corridor (MSC), the Silicon Valley of Malaysia. (www.mdc.com.my)

IdeasAsia.com is a virtual incubator that provides a platform for Entrepreneurs where their ideas can be nurtured, developed, and transformed from “up-and-coming” early startup stage, to becoming a  shining “super star” .

From IBO to IPO

The objectives of the integrated 3-Exchanges.com :

The 3-Exchanges’ model has been presented to the governments of the 10 ASEAN countries and also the Business Council of the 54 Commonwealth countries. The 3- Exchanges’ model has in principal been approved and accepted by both the ASEAN and Commonwealth Business Councils. It is expected to be implemented in all the respective 64 member countries as from this year 2001.

An Entrepreneur who is seeking a joint-venture partner to provide  financing or a ready growing international export market is now able to do so by accessing to www.3-Exchanges.com or   www.investmentbankasia.com.