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The Institute of Banking & Finance (IBF) was established in November 1974 to upgrade expertise in the financial industry in Singapore. As financial services developed over the years, IBF expanded its role to include the administration of local and overseas examinations. More than 180,000 participants have benefited from over 4,000 courses offered by the Institute through the years. In 2001, IBF repositioned itself to focus on a broader and strategic role of developing a responsive, forward-looking financial sector training-infrastructure that positions Singapore as a world class training hub. Among the various initiatives on manpower development, training quality assurance and industry best practices, IBF now administers part of the Capital Markets and Financial Advisory Services (CMFAS) examination series on behalf of the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) and serves as the national accreditation and certification agency for financial competency under the Financial Industry Competency Standards (FICS) framework. Please visit the company website at www.ibf.org.sg

The Financial Industry Competency Standards (FICS) is developed by the industry for the industry. It has the strong support of leading financial institutions and industry associations, the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) and the Singapore Workforce Development Agency (WDA). FICS is a comprehensive quality assurance framework with a certification and accreditation system that aims to raise the quality of the financial workforce and training providers. The development of the training and certification process involved hundreds of leading financial practitioners across more than 100 financial institutions in Singapore and abroad. It was developed in conjunction with, and is aligned to, best practices found in other leading financial centres, and broadly integrates international best practice with WDA’s Quality Assurance system under the Workforce Skills Qualification framework (WSQ). For more information, please log on to www.fics.org.sg

Allen & Overy is one of the world’s leading law firms, with around 5,000 staff and 470 partners worldwide. Since opening its first office in 1930, the firm has grown into a global organisation with 36 offices in 26 countries across Europe, Asia Pacific, the Americas and the Middle East.

Over half of our turnover is generated outside the UK and two-thirds of our work is cross-border, involving our offices in two or more countries. Strikingly, nearly 20% of our work involves offices in five or more countries, demonstrating the importance of providing a global response to our clients’ needs.

Operating in major economic centres across the globe, we are at the heart of the world’s business community. All our offices have deep local roots in their jurisdictions. We can therefore provide clients with leading legal expertise and advice on a local and international level.

Our clients and people are at the centre of everything we do, and we pride ourselves on the excellent relationships we have built up over the years. We listen to our clients and ensure that we understand their needs fully – not just their legal matters. This enables us to provide the comprehensive and unbeatable service for which we are world-famous.

Our Asia-Pacific Regulatory Group

Our Asia-Pacific Regulatory Group has extensive experience in advising various international financial institutions on regulatory matters including compliance, risk management, dispute resolution and regulatory investigations and proceedings across Asia-Pacific, including on a comparative basis.

The contentious and non-contentious regulatory teams work as seamlessly as possible to provide comprehensive support for our clients. We assist our clients to implement systems which not only comply with applicable regulations, but which, to the extent possible and practicable, provide a degree of protection in relation to their trading and other business arrangements and which would place them in a defensible position should things go wrong.

Local market knowledge – Global candidate resources

Barclay Simpson is a dedicated international corporate governance recruitment consultancy established since 1989. We provide recruitment services across the UK, Europe, Asia Pacific and Middle East and Asia Pacific from our offices in London, Hong Kong and Dubai.

We work with major local and international financial services and banks to help them identify talent for their corporate governance functions. Our locally based recruitment consultants understand their regional recruitment markets and have access to probably the largest single database of corporate governance professionals in the world.

Our services are differentiated by our consultants. Since 1989 we have never lost a consultant to a competitor. In the recent recession, not only did we not make any redundancies, we grew. Our consultants stay with us allowing them to build their expertise in their specialist markets. Our candidates benefit from a highly knowledgeable service and our clients from a well resourced and informed service and exceptional continuity of service. We thoroughly understand the unique nature of the market and what it takes to find the right candidate either locally or from the international talent pool.

Barclay Simpson Asia Pacific

Barclay Simpson Asia Pacific opened its office in Hong Kong in 2008. We predominantly service Hong Kong and Singapore and offer expert recruitment services across all areas of corporate governance. We work with a wide range of banking, fund management, insurance and other financial services businesses across the region for all Regulatory Compliance and Anti-Money Laundering recruitment and related corporate governance disciplines. We enable our clients to recruit staff with the often scarce skills and experience they need to meet their regulatory compliance and corporate governance objectives. Utilising our single global candidate database that contains both locally and internationally based candidates, we employ a mix of contingency, networking and search methodologies to provide the most effective recruitment solution for any given assignment. We bring an effective combination of subject matter expertise, local market knowledge and global candidate resources to our client’s corporate governance recruitment endeavours.

www.barclaysimpson.com.hk
www.barclaysimpson.com

Standard Chartered in Singapore is part of an international banking group with an extensive network of over 1,700 branches and outlets in more than 70 countries in the Asia Pacific Region, South Asia, the Middle East, Africa, the United Kingdom and the Americas.

It is committed to building a sustainable business over the long term and is trusted worldwide for upholding high standards of corporate governance, social responsibility, environmental protection and employee diversity. The Bank’s heritage and values are expressed in its brand promise, ‘Here for good’.

Standard Chartered has a history of more than 150 years in Singapore, opening its first branch here in 1859 and in October 1999 was among the first international banks to receive a Qualifying Full Bank (QFB) licence, an endorsement of the Group’s long-standing commitment to its businesses in the country.

It serves both Consumer and Wholesale Banking customers. Consumer Banking provides credit cards, personal loans, mortgages, deposit taking and wealth management services to individuals and small to medium sized enterprises. Wholesale Banking provides corporate and institutional clients with services in trade finance, cash management, lending, securities services, foreign exchange, debt capital markets and corporate finance.

The Bank employs over 7,000 people in Singapore and has a network of 19 branches, 30 ATMs and 7 Priority Banking centres. Standard Chartered is the only international bank to offer NETS service, giving its customers access to EFTPOS at over 17,000 outlets islandwide. The Bank’s global businesses - Consumer and Wholesale Banking - are managed out of Singapore, as is its global Technology & Operations function.

BNP Paribas (www.bnpparibas.com) is one of the strongest banks in the world*. The Group has a presence in more than 80 countries and more than 200,000 employees, including more than 160,000 in Europe. It ranks highly in its three core activities: Retail Banking, Investment Solutions and Corporate & Investment Banking. In Europe, the Group has four domestic markets (Belgium, France, Italy and Luxembourg) and BNP Paribas Personal Finance is the leader in consumer lending. BNP Paribas is rolling out its integrated retail banking model across the Europe-Mediterranean zone and boasts a large network in the western part of the United States. In its Corporate & Investment Banking and Investment Solutions activities, BNP Paribas also enjoys top positions in Europe, a strong presence in the Americas and solid and fast-growing businesses in Asia.

* Rated AA by Standard & Poor's i.e. 3rd rating level on a scale of 22.

Moody's Investors Service is among the world's most respected, widely utilized sources for credit ratings, research and risk analysis. Moody’s commitment and expertise contributes to transparent and integrated financial markets, protecting the integrity of credit. The firm publishes market-leading credit opinions, deal research and commentary, serving more than 8,700 customer accounts worldwide.

Moody's integrity and deep market expertise have earned it the trust of capital market participants worldwide. Our ratings and analysis track debt covering more than 100 sovereign nations, 11,000 corporate issuers, 26,000 public finance issuers, and 110,000 structured finance obligations.

Moody's default studies validate our predictive ratings. Our published research and well-attended investor briefings keep investors current with the rationale underlying our credit opinions.

In recent years, Moody's has moved significantly beyond its traditional bond rating activities, assigning ratings to issuers of securities, insurance company obligations, bank loans, bank deposits and other bank debt, managed funds and derivatives. The firm also has expanded into developing markets through joint ventures and affiliations with local rating agencies.

Moody's maintains offices in most of the world's major financial centers and employs approximately 3,600 people worldwide, including more than 1,000 analysts.

Clients include investors, depositors, creditors, investment banks, commercial banks, other financial intermediaries, and a wide range of corporate and governmental issuers of securities.

Moody's Investors Service is a subsidiary of Moody's Corporation (NYSE: MCO). The corporation reported revenue of $2.3 billion in 2007. Additional information about the company is available at www.moodys.com.

International Compliance Association (ICA)

Founded in 2001, the International Compliance Association (ICA) is a professional awarding body committed to increasing knowledge and professionalism throughout financial services, all over the world. The ICA has a professional membership and a global reputation for the promotion of continued education and development in compliance, anti money laundering and financial crime prevention.

The ICA is dedicated to helping you be all you can be in your professional career, raising the standards of professionalism and competence throughout firms and financial centres all over the world. There are a range of qualifications specifically designed to provide practical skills and useful knowledge for all practitioners, regardless of experience. The ICA partnership with the prestigious University of Manchester Business School ensures high quality assurance on our qualifications at every level.

The ICA works with local compliance associations globally in order to bring knowledge and guidance to practitioners wherever they are in the world. On-going development is important to the ICA and we are increasing the number of opportunities where members can access best practice initiatives in order to further their understanding.

www.int-comp.org

International Compliance Training Academy (ICTA)

International Compliance Training Academy Pte. Ltd. is the exclusive training provider for qualifications and programmes awarded by the International Compliance Association. Based in Singapore, it serves the training needs for the Far East and Australasia.

The International Compliance Association was appointed by the Institute of Banking and Finance (IBF), the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) and the Workforce Development Agency (WDA) as the FICS Lead Provider in Compliance Training in 2007. ICTA’s experienced industry experts deliver all training for the programmes that are accredited under the Financial Industry Competency Standards (FICS), as well as training for other ICA programmes in Singapore.

As well as Singapore, the International Compliance Training Academy offers training courses in Malaysia, Australia and Hong Kong. In Malaysia, ICTA works alongside Institut Bank-Bank Malaysia (IBBM), Asian Institute of Finance (AIF), and the Compliance Officers Networking Group (CONG) to promote training through industry accredited frameworks in Anti Money Laundering and Counter Terrorism of Financing. ICTA also works alongside the Australian Financial Markets Association (AFMA), providing a Diploma in Applied Anti Money Laundering and Counter Terrorist Financing to the Australian financial services industry. In Hong Kong ICTA works with Courses & Seminars to provide the International Diploma in Compliance and International Diploma in Anti Money Laundering, approved under the Non-local Higher and Professional Education (Regulation) Ordinance and regulated by the HK Education Bureau.

www.int-comp.org

Control Risks is a global risk consultancy specialising in political, security and integrity risk. We help our clients to understand and manage the risks of operating in complex or hostile environments.

Our unique combination of services, our geographical reach and the trust our clients place in us, ensures we can help them effectively solve their problems and realise new opportunities across the world. From our 34 offices across five continents, Control Risks provides the following services:

• Political risk assessment
• Business intelligence
• Fraud and investigations
• eDiscovery
• Crisis management and business continuity planning
• Security risk audits, protection and training
• Security design solutions
• Travel security analysis and management services