Effective risk management is a value-adding activity which impacts the achievement of organisational strategy and objectives, the stability of earnings and bottom line performance. Risk also affects an organisation’s credit rating, share price and reputation.

ESG-based investment vehicles have gained enormous prominence in the past two years. The ESG premium on the S&P500 has gone from negative to positive, where it has stayed for over a year. 1

It seems that the region continues to act as a platform for battles of interests between the EU and Russia. So far, this competition is favouring the Stans.

Austrade continues to proudly fly Australia’s premium food flag in Singapore, including at a booming Southeast Asia trade event in June.

In July 2017, the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) announced that LIBOR was coming to an end. Banks will be required to transition away from LIBOR to Alternative Reference Rates (ARRs) based on overnight wholesale deposit rates from the end of 2021. Without any doubt, this transition is one of the largest upheavals of the financial markets in living memory.

Welcome to the 8th IFN Singapore event.

Doubling sovereign Issuance... Doubling sovereign Issuers... Climate finance objectives pre- and post-COP26

COVID-19 has thrust the world into recession, which as a result akin to a domino effect, has led to rapid and accelerated change. Most notably, industries have pivoted online as we hurtle headlong into an increasingly digitalized society. In response to extended lockdowns, society has become more reliant on technology than it has ever been.

Singapore and Hong Kong have agreed in principle to create an air travel bubble between them that will not require quarantine upon arrival, the Singapore government said Thursday.

M&A Report (August 2020)