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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...

You are 'good'! You are deserving and the chosen few for this life and this program!!  Find and be passionate of your purpose and values that will energise you and others; harness your energy that help make a better future for others and everyone. Make this world a better place!  Stay calm and authentic, its about learning; it's not about ego nor competing!  In a case study, there is no right nor a wrong answer - it is the learning process that matters. There are no easy answers, walk the tight rope and flex.  We get stresses when we are unable to manage our body, mind or soul. Self assess and reflect, Self coach, self visualize, self talk, self critique to find answers.  Integrity, Compassion, Forgiveness, Empathy will take you far ahead in the game !  Rule 10: 90 - work on your 10% priorities; as rest is less important and can be managed later. Rule 90:10 - 90% factors are contollable or self generated and 10% non-con...

GTR Asia Finance week – 9 September 2015:  Performance, pricing and managing the supply chain: Coping with challenges in the soft commodity space Moderator : Chris Pardey, Chief Executive Officer, RCMA Commodities Gopul Shah, Director, Corporate Treasury & Trade Finance, Golden Agri-Resources Jacqueline Chang, Regional Head of Commodities, Asia, ABN Amro John Reeve, Director, AgRee Commodities Jean-Francois Lambert, Global Head of Commodity & Structured Trade Finance, HSBC *  S ugar, coffee, cocoa, grains, cotton, and palm oil: How have these various sectors performed over the past year when it comes to pricing? Where is the most volatility predicted? *  Are we seeing fewer participants in the commodity space as we near the end of the ‘super-cycle’? Is this expected to be a long-term trend or something more cyclical? *  With banks keen to minimise risk and limit exposure to price volatility, how has this impacted on the use of hedging a...