As part of the series of CEO Perspectives on the impact of and response to COVID-19, Hisham Ezz Al-Arab, chairman and managing director of CIB discusses the bank’s efforts to keep clients and staff safe, help SMEs regain their footing and how being a more digitalised organisation has allowed it to withstand the pandemic.
Amid the pandemic-inflicted downturn, the real value of firms is under the spotlight. Adrian de Groot Ruiz, executive director of Impact Institute, explains how to find the real value of a firm when 50-80% of firms’ market value is not reflected in the books.
In this CEO Perspectives piece, Philippine National Bank President and CEO Wick Veloso shares details of his bank’s initiatives for employees’ safety, the pandemic’s sweeping effects in the Philippine context, and what it will take for the economy to recover.
In this CEO Perspectives series, we ask CEOs and chairmen of a number of banks around the world for their comments and opinions on how their institutions and the region they are in are affected by and responding to the COVID-19 pandemic. They share their personal assessment of how this crisis will play out, the outlook for their region's banking industry, their bank's readiness and first line responses to the crisis for both customers and staff, as well as how the crisis will change their bank and the industry in the long term. Here is an overview of what they said:
Mambu’s Managing Director, APAC, Myles Bertrand, explains how traditional financial institutions can evolve to capitalise on the new era of digital banking.
Only 55% and 49% of surveyed Singapore and Hong Kong executives believe their companies do a good job in disclosing ESG metrics, according to a survey by Workday.
Wealth managers must acquire new capabilities to win in the “Smart Era” by collaborating with fintechs on broader use cases and application, by reinventing customer value propositions, and by reshaping the entire customer experience
In a major show of force and leadership, the Federal Reserve announced sweeping measures to provide support for the flow of credit to American families and businesses. While the Dow initially showed a lacklustre response, the comprehensive package lifted major global markets.
In Asia Pacific, South Korea’s Kakao Bank, Alibaba-backed MyBank and Judo Bank in Australia are the top three digital banks that have raised the most capital
Technology has enabled the world of finance to innovate and diversify rapidly in recent years with the increasing digitalisation of banking services — and regulators have struggled to keep pace until now
In this, the first in the series of CEO Perspectives on the impact of and response to COVID-19, Maybank CEO and Group President Abdul Farid Alias accentuates the need for rigorous planning in times of crises such as the COVID-19 pandemic and the changes it will bring to the business landscape.
Tao Zhang, co-founder of Dao Ventures and founder of one of the first impact funds in China, discusses his latest clean food impact investment in Shenzhen and the slow development of the impact ecosystem in China.
Tao Zhang, co-founder of Dao Ventures and founder of one of the first impact funds in China, discusses his latest clean food impact investment in Shenzhen and the slow development of the impact ecosystem in China
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