Buoyed by trends such as ongoing digitalisation, the use of big data, and the rise in seamless mobile internet connectivity, Southeast Asia’s financial services sector is transforming.
In Singapore, the investment management industry and related financial institutions often face the issue of legacy IT systems built in the 1980s or 90s.
Internal Auditors, Cost Accountants and Relationship Managers are among the candidates in hottest demand this quarter across Asia, according to the Hays Quarterly Hotspots.
Mobile wallets will be the next battleground among businesses from various sectors – including financial institutions (FIs) in the fight for ownership of the consumer relationship.
With half of online Australians already engaged with video online and a third using video calling, how can financial services institutions use video to better engage customers and workers?
Businesses today face a host of unavoidable challenges that need to be tackled in order to achieve core business objectives, including lowering costs, increasing revenue and enhancing competitive advantage.
The continuing digital sophistication of consumers in the financial services market has driven many of the developments in products, infrastructure and processes.
The financial globalization echo emotive gains primarily because of the deemed connectivity between highly fluid capital flows and the financial crises, that have become more pronounced in the past three decades.
The persistent sluggishness and ominous uncertainty in Europe and United States economies, flanking warnings coming from different multilateral institutions, the continuing debt problems and economic fragilities in EU member countries and looming fiscal cliff in United States, indicate risks of global economic forecasts remaining on the downside in the short to medium term.
China’s evolving financial system has required the central bank to change its tools.
Capital outflows and the gradual liberalization of the yuan mean that the era of sterilized intervention is ending.
A new governor could move the PBoC towards a more conventional market-based policy, although the overall policy stance is still expected to be set by the government for the foreseeable future.
Monetary policy in China has traditionally had three levers: interest rates, reserve ratios and the currency.
Whilst there was general agreement on the need to reform the global financial system after the 2007 financial crisis, the impact of the revised regulations published in 2009 by the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (BCBS) has been felt far and wide.
A key role of the finance team in any commercial organisation is to co-ordinate the annual budgeting or fiscal planning process and then to provide regular updates on progress towards the attainment of that plan.
Let’s face it: those developed economies, that once were the ones spinning the globe including Japan, are currently fire-fighting their daily affairs of debt crisis, unemployment and so on.
Mobile financial services (MFS) today encompass a variety of offerings from mobile banking, bill and credit card payments to money transfer and cashless payments, catering to the different usage demands of developed and developing markets.
In the financial services industry, the business agenda has firmly moved from survival and cost containment to growth, as firms look to rebuild their earnings models.
