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In an increasingly complex and interdependent world of financial markets and products and services, only those financial institutions that are able to effectively manage and control their risks will have the ability to succeed. Compliance and Risk management, hence while closely link to insurance and banking industry, has progressively become a defined industry on its own right. It now focuses on risk minimisation and the wider aspects of risk management infrastructures within organisations, blending the accounting, strategy, financial and industry analysis and compliance professions.
Job opportunities in the Compliance area include wholesale banking, consumer banking, insurance, securities and future, or anti-money laundering. As for Risk Management, the opportunities include credit risk management, market risk management, operational risk management, credit analytics, market analytics, and asset liability management.
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The Consumer Banking segment covers a comprehensive range of innovative banking services and financial solutions to individuals. Products and services within this segment include credit cards, loans, investment & unit trusts, insurance and retail banking.
Job opportunities include areas like relationship management, retail credit marketing, telemarketing and sales, customer service (branch network or call centre), product development, special asset management, credit analysis, credit control and administration, as well as branch operations.
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The Corporate Banking segment refers to the provision of a full range of banking business for corporate, government bodies and financial institutions. These include financing of exports and imports, transfer of funds, commercial letters of credit, trust receipts, advise on trade and investments and cash management and extension of loans to businesses from short-term channel financing of receivables and payables to medium-term leases to finance acquisitions such as machinery, equipment and technology.
Job opportunities are many and varied, in areas such as relationship management for whole sale corporate clients, or small and medium enterprise, sales and marketing, project financing, structured financing advisory, cash management, trade finance, special asset management, credit analysis, credit control and administration, customer service, as well as transactions processing, control and support.
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The Corporate Finance segment involves the provision of financial advisory and capital raising services to corporations, financial institutions and government bodies. The work includes assisting companies to seek public listing on stock exchanges, provide advice on rules and regulations regarding listing on both local and foreign stock exchanges and act as issuing house for the issue of new securities and underwriting of unsubscribed shares.
Job opportunities include areas such as origination, structuring and advisory (equities), sales and distribution, deal processing and settlements and research.
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The Financial Markets segment is a myriad of different markets, such as capital market, money market, securities market and foreign exchange market.
Job opportunities include areas like trading, customer sales, debt origination and syndication, asset securitisation, deal processing and settlements, product control and research.
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The Fund Management segment is sometimes called asset management and refers to the provision of discretionary or advisory-based management of funds to generate investment returns, subject to guidelines set out under the client’s investment management agreement. For this portal, we have also classified Hedge Funds, Private Equity and Venture Capital under this segment, which is usually seen as a separate industry altogether.
Job opportunities include areas such as portfolio management, central dealing, business development, product development, deal processing and settlements, performance measurement, fund administration, client administration and reporting, research and investment analysis.
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The General Insurance segment refers to the provision of non-life insurance coverage. The scope is extremely wide and diverse, covering motor, fire, property, marine, workmen’s compensation and liability insurance, among others. Reinsurance in this segment refers to the business activity of accepting underwriting risks from direct general insurers.
Job opportunities include areas like distribution, channel management, claims handling, underwriting, as well as policy servicing and customer servicing.
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The Life Insurance segment refers to life insurance coverage. Life reinsurance refers to the business activity of accepting underwriting risks from direct life insurers.
Job opportunities here include areas like channel management, claims handling, underwriting, as well as policy servicing and customer servicing.
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The Wealth Management segment is one of the most important segments of the financial services sector. Focus here is on servicing the financial needs of private individuals.
Job opportunities include areas like relationship management for high net worth clients and mass affluent (private and priority banking), financial advisory services, product development, client administration and reporting, trust administration, estate planning and deal processing and settlements.
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