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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...