Singapore

HSBC cut over 100 jobs in Singapore representing just over 3 percent of its 3,000-strong workforce in the city-state.

If successful, it will be the biggest bank takeover in Southeast Asia.

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.

The Islamic banking sector is one of the fastest growing segments in global banking, growing at an estimated 15-20% p.a.

IBS has recently come out with its Sales League Tables for the year ended December 2011. The analysis has shown that IT vendors concentrating on the APAC market have moved up significantly.

Malaysia’s RHB Bank Berhad intends to fund small and medium-sized enterprises in Singapore to expand its business.

And who knows, cheques may even become obsolete someday; find out what CIMB's Iswaraan Suppiah and HSBC's John Laurens have to say about mobile banking.

HSBC’s Laurens and Citi’s Saxena concur that the need for decentralization increases as financial centers move from West to East.

DBS’ Ken Stratton and Citi’s Ravi Saxena concur that Asian banks are taking up the slack, resulting in greater opportunities and increasing margins.

Some European countries already agreed to report to their own government agencies rather than direct to the US government - will Asia follow suit?

Morgan Stanley’s wholesale banking license allows it to expand its lucrative wealth management business and boost lending.

It increased to 90% in 2011 compared to 82% in 2010.

Central banks in the ASEAN will set up an ASEAN bank system.

Although asset management is considered the most consistently profitable business in financial services, there has been extreme volatility in the degree to which individual firms capture profits.

The internationalisation of RMB is providing banks with opportunities to enhance their cash management structures in the face of a USD liquidity shortage - but does a shortage really exist till now?

The Singapore unit of CIMB Bank is poised to expand its Islamic banking operations in a big way.