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FT-Deutsche Bank partnership Global Treasury Leadership Retreat Singapore | 11 - 12 November 2015 https://live.ft.com/Events/2015/Global-Treasury-Leadership-Retreat 12 November 2015 - 11.10   Debate: The Real Impact of Regulation Regulatory requirements intended to create a stronger, more resilient financial system have become a necessary burden for all sectors, but has the full impact of these requirements on the real economy been accounted for?  The overall impact of the complex and multi-country financial regulations is currently difficult to quantify on the economy, customers and the financial sector.  • We will have to accept that regulatory requirements are complex and has reduced the agility of doing business. The need to understand, internalise and implement regulations has created risk averseness and reduced the turnaround time for origination and execution.  • Banks are taking longer time to approve new clients or renew limit...

Maximising Business Opportunities in South-South Trade [ 2nd article with an EM theme] 11 Nov 15 | Author Gopul Shah | Asia Pacific Economy Trade Finance https://www.gtnews.com/articles/maximising-business-opportunities-in-south-south-trade/ After the initial success back in the 1990s in moving manufacturing from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) to Asia’s Tiger economies, the shift of manufacturing to China and of back office and software development to India has created complex supply chains for resources acquisition. The countries impacted include Australia, Indonesia, Peru, Brazil, Russia, and Africa. World Trade Organisation (WTO) initiatives, free trade agreements (FTAs) and trade cooperation have meanwhile continued to strengthen the exchange of trade and services. Highly competitive labour forces and consumerism in emerging markets, steady reductions in the cost of trade financing, risk mitigation, logistics, packaging, insurance and communicatio...

Bloomberg celebrating 25 years of doing business in Singapore.   Published September, 2015 http://youtu.be/l2U9yWUfJ7w

Institutionalising and  Internationalisation of  treasury, trade and structured finance practices and management while balancing growth, seizing opportunities and risk management.   Commodity Trading in Emerging Markets: Balancing Risks and Opportunities Volatile commodity prices, depreciating local currencies, evolving regulations and higher  financing costs in emerging markets are presenting both challenges and opportunities for  treasurers. Against this backdrop, how are Asia’s leading companies balancing their risk  management and growth objectives? Working Capital Hurdles The commodity trading industry is experiencing  margin compression due to volatile prices,  increasing number of players, price transparency  and capital requirements. At the same time,  supply chains continue to evolve and globalize,  creating a significant degree of complexity and  risk. The longer and more interc...

Digital India and the world, a giant leap forward ! Lot of hope in technology and digitization to resolve challenges, empower people, creat real exonomy enterprenuers, and bridge the gap between demand and supply that help efficient use of resources in a sustainable and scalabe manner that seems monumental in the recent past!  This is an UberTaxi application which shows supply of cars and taxis on rent and i now wish to see similar applications showing farm equipments, people seeking skills and jobs, food and water, books, toilets, recyclable waste and renewable resources, and whatever resources that can be marketable to balance demand, supply and discover price. The UberTaxi, Airbnb and other app brings together the best technologies - internet, GPS, smart cell phones, the cloud, the softwares, and the real economy on real time basis.  I hope an Uber and Airbnb taxi like application(s) can help people discover availability of  #clean and usable pay and use private and pu...

Emerging market multinationals are set to reshape global trade; “What the Growth of South-South Trade Means for Multinational Companies? @ Bloomberg Brief.  http://newsletters.briefs.blpprofessional.com/document/Bj66QMePtZ.W3C2POZNqIQ--_46z1dnclxlbzq6p9ms/qampa http://www.bloomberg.com/professional/blog/what-the-growth-of-south-south-trade-means-for-multinational-companies/ The article discusses trade and commerce between emerging markets - tapping into opportunities and managing risks, how emerging market companies have grown as MNC's, the challenges such as implementation risk and volatility in foreign exchange and prices of commodities while navigating challenges and how to ensure sustainable success.

* Leadership is the art of harnessing human energy towards the creation of a better future. In the process of harnessing energy, leaders respect and value people at all levels. Leaders bring out the best in others and cares about success of everyone; they earn respect.  * Leadership is all about creating change for a better future. Not giving up on the envisioned better future is at the heart of powerful leadership. Creating change encounters huge resistance at every step. Staying the course despite resistance requires deep intrinsic leadership energy. * Leaders are not born but are nurtured (or nurture themselves). Leadership is not a title or position to command or direct a group and is neither measured by the wealth nor income. * Leaders are ordinary people that assume extraordinary positions and they remain ordinary; leadership exist at all levels in the organisation and is situational. Our lowest (forced) ranking colleague is a leader in his own scope of work and...