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Liew Nam Soon: Challenges provide opportunities to innovate.

The recession may be key to much needed change - Ernst & Young explains why.

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Liew Nam Soon: Challenges provide opportunities to innovate.

The recession may be key to much needed change - Ernst & Young explains why.

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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More than 500 statutes globally relate to sanctions

They enforce almost 1,500 conditions relevant to financial services institutions of which 48% block trade.

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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...

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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...

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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.

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Dr Holger Kern: Microfinance - An urban Myth or Rural reality?

How microfinance exchanges like ZOPA, Lending Hub, Prosper, Smava and Boober threaten banks.

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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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