Blogs & Opinion
Will Linked-in help or hurt your banking career?
Will Linked-in help or hurt your banking career?
Once upon a time, a typical job-search process involved simply browsing job advertisements in newspapers, writing a CV and cover letter and...
Payment institutions: what role can they play for corporates?
The global financial crisis was a stark reminder for many companies that effective working capital management and strong counterparty risk management...
FATCA: A shake-up in the World of Finance and Banking Secrecy?
A new American tax law has the potential to shake-up not just the U.S. tax reporting system, but also the way financial institutions do business...
China's 5 year financial sector and the new 5-year plans
As with its predecessor, the new 5-year Development Plan attaches importance to continuing financial sector reform in four main areas: (i)...
Why private banks should stop poaching and start coaching
With the growth of the high-net-worth population in Asia–Pacific significantly outpacing the rest of the world, it is no wonder that the demand for...
Collateral management wisdom
As the rest of the world scurried to locate adequate collateral in order to secure transactions against mounting counterparty risk and to gain access...
How facebooked is your bank and do you twitter?
In the banking industry, growth is back on the agenda.
Asian Banking & Finance hiring hotspots
Increasing market strength and new government regulation will see new permanent roles created this quarter in China.
Compensation policies as a strategic value creator
In the aftermath of the global financial crisis, compensation practices in the Financial Services industry have come under significant scrutiny by...
Empty thrones
Throughout the last two quarters, most hiring managers in banks were grappling with multiple offers and counter offers, thinking the worst of them.
The future of banker compensation
The compensation landscape at financial institutions is undergoing dramatic change. New approaches to remuneration are being implemented to comply...
Do banks still make good employers?
The banking industry has been getting a bad wrap in recent times, but is this scrutiny justified, and is working in banking now radically different...
Payment situation of Chinese companies: how will it affect Singaporean companies?
Coface conducted a corporate credit risk management survey in China, in the fourth quarter of 2010. Over 1000 companies in mainland China...
Evolving regulatory reform
According to a recent joint KPMG and Oracle survey of executives from financial institutions across the region, the recently proposed reforms Basel...
Buy-side firms promote local matching on SWIFT
Schroders and Legal & General Investment Management are actively involved with a number of brokers in developing a local confirmation-affirmation...
2011: Rabbits and financial instruments accounting
The Year of the Rabbit will be a year with quite a lot of attention on accounting standards, particularly financial instruments accounting.
The “defenses” to protecting your money
Businesses’ “three lines of defense” may not be strong enough to withstand the next lapse of controls.