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Liew Nam Soon: Challenges provide opportunities to innovate.
Liew Nam Soon: Challenges provide opportunities to innovate.
The recession may be key to much needed change - Ernst & Young explains why.
Mark Billington: It's a risky business.
The last two years have been extraordinary by any standards. Established financial institutions have been swept away, amalgamated or nationalised in...
Customer Profitability Insight is Key to a Customer Equity Optimization Strategy
In the current economic environment, many organisations seek to become more customer-focused, and this requires fresh, detailed high-quality data...
Winston Ngan: Liquidity’s new prominence on the risk agenda
Recent events in the global financial markets are a poignant reminder that financial institutions have exposures that extend beyond the assumed risks...
Hansi Mehrotra: Forget historical returns for RI
The United Nations Principles for Responsible Investment now claims over 550 signatories with more than USD 18 trillion in assets. UNPRI provides a...
David Barr: Banking and finance was ‘public enemy #1’.
Very few people regardless of their title, level or role can say they have enjoyed the last 12 months. And even fewer could currently tell you that...
Mark Billington: Operate within environmental limits.
Sustainability should and will move further up the agenda of governments, regulators and businesses. It will as there are signs of the economic...
More than 500 statutes globally relate to sanctions
They enforce almost 1,500 conditions relevant to financial services institutions of which 48% block trade.
Mark Billington: Let's not be hasty with IAS 39 changes
IASB* recently published an exposure draft on the classification and measurement of financial instruments. This is the first of three planned phases...
Dr Holger Kern: Common half-truths in M&A
Valuations for private banking assets dropped significantly after the end of the last major boom in 2007. The landscape of private banking is rapidly...
Bryan Camoens: S’pore banks exceed 2Q09 expectations
If this banking crisis is as bad as it gets, then Singapore’s banks can afford to pat themselves on the back.
Dr Holger Kern: Microfinance - An urban Myth or Rural reality?
How microfinance exchanges like ZOPA, Lending Hub, Prosper, Smava and Boober threaten banks.
Liew Nam Soon, Ernst & Young
The recent turmoil in the financial sector has highlighted the lack of sufficiently effective risk management among banks and other financial...
Dr. Holger Kern, Deloitte Consulting
Shrinking spreads in the region have retail bank franchises engaging in a battle for deposits and running into significant headwinds. As the cost of...
Andrew Morriss
“Nobody knows what’s going to happen,” said F1 guru, Bernie Ecclestone, when asked what the impact of the financial crisis will be on major sports...
Andrew Morriss
“Nobody knows what’s going to happen,” said F1 guru, Bernie Ecclestone, when asked what the impact of the financial crisis will be on major sports...
Rowena Everson
Big-name foreign bank CEO’s can be forgiven for thinking Indonesian lenders are the best things since sliced bread. Maybank and HSBC in the space of...
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ABF Corporate & Investment Banking Awards 2024 Winner: Vietnam Joint Stock Commercial Bank for Industry and Trade (VietinBank)
VietinBank won Project Infrastructure Finance Deal of the Year - Vietnam at the ABF Corporate & Investment Banking Awards 2024.
