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Making risk everyone’s business

The global financial crisis of 2008 has taught the financial services industry several lessons: the importance of managing liquidity; the need to...

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Making risk everyone’s business

The global financial crisis of 2008 has taught the financial services industry several lessons: the importance of managing liquidity; the need to...

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Ten ways to crack the job market in Hong Kong and Singapore

Hong Kong and Singapore are popular places to build careers. When my company surveyed financial professionals there, about 80 per cent recommended...

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10 things governments should do to ensure banking and financial stability

A number of countries in Africa, Asia, the Middle East and Latin America have ‘come in from the cold’ in recent years as a result of a pent-up desire...

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3 ways to avoid unplanned outages in Asian banks

High Availability is a Business Decision Before automated teller machines, customers looking to access banking services had no choice but to wait in...

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Rising leverage poses rating risks for Asia-Pacific banks

High or rapidly increasing leverage, together with mounting exposure to China, will constrain upward rating momentum for banks in Asia-Pacific (APAC)...

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Continued churn makes it a low-hire job market, not a no-hire one

The last 12 months have taught us that Asia Pacific is not immune to the redundancies that have swept through global financial services. There are...

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What you need to know about Vietnam's bank restructuring

This article illustrates key drivers behind restructuring of banks in Vietnam and highlights the key priorities in the restructuring journey.

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Asia hit by shortage of credit and risk professionals

Despite current global economic conditions, demand is still evident across Asia’s banking and finance sector for particular skills. Here Christine...

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Barclays: Valuation by analysis

We proposed that Barclays should be split into two separate banks - one focused on retail banking and the other on investment banking - in our 5 July...

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Overhauling the weak segments of the Spanish financial sector

Supervision of Spain’s troubled banking system has now passed largely into the hands of inspectors drawn from the European Commission, the IMF, the...

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Why Europe’s problems benefit Asian banks...for now

Over the past couple of months, Europe has been at a crossroads. Ever since the fears among investors intensified in late 2010 regarding the...

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Barclays should split into two

Barclays’ troubles and Bob Diamond’s resignation have not come as a surprise to experienced London bank-watchers. They have been brewing for years...

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Tax avoidance: No laughing matter!

The recent controversy in the United Kingdom concerning the comedian Jimmy Carr’s offshore tax avoidance scheme has again raised the thorny issue of...

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Banking employees seek financial stability

Cost-cutting at banking and financial institutions around the world is impacting confidence of employees in the industry locally, with employees...

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As budgets are squeezed, financial institutions look within for talent

Employees are seeking it and employers are supplying it: mobility. Moving people internally is an increasingly important way for firms to reduce...

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Why retention still matters, even in a downbeat APAC job market

There are more redundancies and fewer vacancies in Asian and Pacific financial services than a year ago as many institutions strive to slash costs in...

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