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Bloomberg, the global business and financial information and news leader, gives influential decision makers a critical edge by connecting them to a dynamic network of information, people and ideas. The company's strength - delivering data, news and analytics through innovative technology, quickly and accurately - is at the core of the Bloomberg Professional service, which provides real time financial information to more than 300,000 subscribers globally. Bloomberg's enterprise solutions build on the company's core strength, leveraging technology to allow customers to access, integrate, distribute and manage data and information across organizations more efficiently and effectively. Through Bloomberg Law, Bloomberg Government and Bloomberg New Energy Finance, the company provides data, news and analytics to decision makers in industries beyond finance. And Bloomberg News, delivered through the Bloomberg Professional service, television, radio, mobile, the Internet and two magazines, Bloomberg Businessweek and Bloomberg Markets, covers the world with more than 2,300 news and multimedia professionals at 146 bureaus in 72 countries. Headquartered in New York, Bloomberg employs more than 13,000 people in 185 locations around the world.
DBS - Living, Breathing Asia
DBS is a leading financial services group in Asia, with over 200 branches across 15 markets. Headquartered and listed in Singapore, DBS is a market leader in Singapore with over four million customers and also has a growing presence in the three key Asian axes of growth, namely, Greater China, Southeast Asia and South Asia. The bank's strong capital position, as well as "AA-" and "Aa1" credit ratings that are among the highest in the Asia-Pacific region, earned it Global Finance's "Safest Bank in Asia" accolade for two consecutive years, in 2009 and 2010.
DBS provides the full range of services in corporate, SME, consumer and wholesale banking activities across Asia and the Middle East. As a bank born and bred in Asia, DBS also understands the intricacies of doing business in the region's most dynamic markets. This market insight and regional connectivity have helped to drive the bank's growth as it sets out to be the Asian bank of choice. The bank believes that building lasting relationships with its customers is an integral part of banking the Asian way.
With its extensive network of operations in Asia and emphasis on engaging and empowering its staff, DBS presents exciting career opportunities. The bank acknowledges the passion, commitment and can-do spirit in each of its 15,000 staff, representing over 30 nationalities.
DBS Treasury & Markets
As an Asian leader in treasury operations, DBS extends a broad range of capabilities in foreign exchange, interest rates and derivatives, money market and securities trading, to corporations and financial institutions. We offer excellent, customer-driven research capabilities and cutting-edge risk management technology and systems.
Treasury & Markets provides innovative, timely and affordable banking services and solutions, leveraging on our extensive Asian network and expertise to become the region's premier provider of treasury products.
db-X funds is part of Deutsche Bank's Global Markets division and provides a comprehensive range of innovative investment strategies accessible in open-ended fund format with daily liquidity.
Leveraging the research and trading capabilities of Deutsche Bank as a leading global investment bank, db-X funds has been a pioneer in quantitative investment management solutions since 2002, using state of the art synthetic replication techniques combined with robust risk management processes and professional asset allocation expertise.
With currently more than 70 funds worldwide and assets under management of US$17 billion for all db-X funds as of 30 June 2011, db-X funds is a leading global provider of structured fund wrappers.
Algorithmics is the world's leading provider of enterprise risk management solutions. Algorithmics' software, analytics, and advisory services enable financial institutions to make risk-aware business decisions, maximize shareholder value, and meet regulatory requirements. Supported by a global team of risk experts based in all major financial centers, Algorithmics offers proven, award-winning solutions for market, credit, liquidity, and operational risk, as well as collateral and capital management.
Algorithmics is a member of the Fitch Group.
CIMB Group is a regional universal bank operating in high growth economies in ASEAN. CIMB Group has the widest retail branch network across the region and is an indigenous ASEAN investment bank.
We operate across ASEAN under several corporate entities, which include CIMB Investment Bank, CIMB Bank, CIMB Islamic, CIMB Niaga, CIMB Securities International and CIMB Thai. CIMB Group's multi-local business model is organised primarily across the following areas: Consumer Banking, Corporate & Institutional Banking & Markets and Group Asset Management, Insurance & Takaful. CIMB Islamic operates in parallel with these businesses, in line with CIMB Group's dual banking model.
Headquartered in Kuala Lumpur, we have a presence in 14 countries, covering ASEAN and major global financial centres, as well as countries in which our customers have significant business and investment dealings. With over 39,000 employees, CIMB Group reaches 81% of the ASEAN population, representing 89% of the region's gross domestic product.
In addition, CIMB Group's geographical reach and its products and services are complemented by smart partnerships. Our partners include the Principal Financial Group, Aviva plc, Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ, Standard Bank plc and Daewoo Securities, among others.
We think ASEAN. We believe in the power of scale and diversity of ASEAN and draw on our people, knowledge and insights to serve and connect our customers.
CME Group is the world's leading and most diverse derivatives marketplace. The Group is comprised of four major futures exchanges - CME, CBOT, NYMEX and COMEX - and offers the widest range of benchmark futures and options products available on any exchange. Our products cover all major asset classes, including interest rates, equity indexes, foreign exchange, energy, agricultural commodities, metals, weather and real estate.
In June 1992, CME launched CME Globex®, a global electronic trading platform for the trading of futures and options on futures products. Initially implemented for after-hours trading, today CME Globex is available virtually 24 hours a day offering customers around the world the capability to trade all of CME Group's products.
CME Globex is currently approved to operate in 88 countries and foreign territories. We operate eight global telecommunications hubs in Amsterdam, Dublin, London, Milan, Paris, Sao Paulo, Seoul and Singapore.
CME Group has grown its portion of electronic trading from approximately 15 percent in 2000 to more than 80 percent today.
CME Group also operates CME Clearing, one of the largest central counterparty clearing services in the world. CME Clearing provides clearing and settlement services for exchange-traded contracts, as well as for over-the-counter derivatives transactions through CME ClearPort. These products and services ensure that businesses everywhere can substantially mitigate counterparty credit risk in both listed and over-the-counter derivatives markets.
A division of the Fitch Group, Fitch Solutions brings to market a wide range of fixed-income data, analytical tools and related services. The division is also the distribution channel for Fitch Ratings content.
Fitch Solutions' product offerings include research services, risk and performance analytics, surveillance tools, structured finance solutions, and pricing and valuation services. The division's service offering includes Fitch Training, a specialist training firm for financial professionals.
The Fitch Group also includes Fitch Ratings, a global rating agency committed to providing independent, timely and objective credit opinions, and Algorithmics, a leader in enterprise risk management solutions. The Fitch Group is a majority-owned subsidiary of Fimalac, S.A., headquartered in Paris, France.
Moody's Analytics helps capital markets and risk management professionals worldwide respond to an evolving marketplace with confidence. The company offers unique tools and best practices for measuring and managing risk through expertise and experience in credit analysis, economic research and financial risk management. By providing leading-edge software, advisory services, and research, including the proprietary analysis of Moody's Investors Service, Moody's Analytics integrates and customizes its offerings to address specific business challenges. Moody's Analytics is a subsidiary of Moody's Corporation (NYSE: MCO), which reported revenue of $2 billion in 2010, employs approximately 4,500 people worldwide and maintains a presence in 26 countries.
At Omgeo, we are the operations experts, automating trade lifecycle events between investment managers, broker/dealers and custodian banks. We enable 6,000 clients and 80 technology partners in 46 countries around the world to seamlessly connect and interoperate. By automating and streamlining post-trade operations, we enable clients to accelerate the clearing and settlement of trades, and better manage and reduce their counterparty and credit risk. Our strength lies with our global community and our ability to adapt our solutions to enable clients to realize clear returns on their investment strategies, while responding to changing market and regulatory conditions. Across borders, asset classes, and trade lifecycles, Omgeo is the global standard for operational efficiency across the investment industry. Formed in 2001, Omgeo is jointly owned by the DTCC and Thomson Reuters. For more information, please visit www.omgeo.com.
Asset Control offers a combination of proven technology and expert knowledge to ensure that financial organizations have the accurate, accessible and actionable data that is necessary to drive their business.
Its solutions transform raw data from various sources into a usable form and distribute it to the right people at the right time. Asset Control ensures that decision-making in mission-critical operations is based on a consistent set of transparent information that is traceable and auditable.
Asset Control's scalable systems and flexible approach allow financial institutions to respond efficiently and easily to customer demands, new regulations and changing market landscapes to increase revenues and create competitive advantage.
OpenLink is a provider of cross-asset trading, risk management, related operations processing and portfolio management software solutions for the commodity, energy and financial services markets globally.
OpenLink's client base of more than 350 customers worldwide includes 12 of the top 25 largest commodity and energy companies by market capitalization, eight of the largest financial institutions and 11 of the largest central banks, as well as major hedge funds, commodities companies and public utilities. Our 950+ employees are located in 12 regional offices worldwide.
TriOptima is the award-winning provider of OTC derivatives infrastructure services including triReduce and triResolve.
triReduce, the portfolio compression service for OTC derivative dealers, pioneers technology that eliminates risk and reduces operational and capital costs. Serving over 150 bank and non-bank subscribers worldwide including the major local and global dealers in derivatives, triReduce offers compression cycles in single name and index CDS swaps worldwide, IRS swaps in 25 currencies and a range of energy derivatives. In Asia TriOptima offers IRS termination cycles in 10 currencies including AUD, CNY, HKD, INR, JPY, KRW, MYR, NZD, SGD and TWD.
triResolve is a network community service that provides counterparty exposure management services including proactive portfolio reconciliation of OTC derivative portfolios, margin management, and dispute resolution. triResolve reconciles all OTC derivative products, from plain vanilla to complex structures. Used by global dealers, regional banks and buy-side firms, triResolve currently handles 6 million trades representing over 75% of all non-cleared OTC derivative transactions globally.
TriOptima maintains offices in London, New York, Singapore, Stockholm, and Tokyo.
Actuarial Society of Hong Kong
The Hong Kong actuarial professional body was first formed in 1968 as the Actuarial Association of Hong Kong. 26 years later, its successor, the Actuarial Society of Hong Kong (ASHK) was duly incorporated in January 1994. The ASHK is a membership organization for actuaries in the industries of insurance, consultancy, finance, education institutes and government.
Since 1999, the ASHK has become a full member of the International Actuarial Association. The ASHK is governed by an elected Council with a President, an Immediate Past President, a Vice President and 10 Council Members. For more information, please visit: http://www.actuaries.org.hk
The Asian Bankers Association (ABA) was organized on October 29, 1981 as one of the service councils of the Confederation of Asia Pacific Chambers of Commerce and Industry (CACCI). The ABA aims to provide a forum for advancing the cause of the banking and finance industry in the region and promoting regional economic cooperation. ABA's membership currently includes some 100 of the leading banks from 24 countries in the Asia-Pacific region. For more information, please visit: http://www.aba.org.tw.
Association of Banks in Malaysia
The Association of Banks in Malaysia (ABM) was formed in November 1973 with the objective of establishing and promoting a sound banking system for commercial banks in Malaysia in cooperation with the Malaysian Central Bank and relevant authorities.
ABM has participated in and pursued wide-ranging issues including formulating and reviewing banking rules, operations and policies to assist the banking industry in becoming more resilient, competitive and effective in meeting the needs of the changing economy.
ABM's members comprise the 24 commercial banks currently operating in Malaysia. For more information, please visit www.abm.org.my
The Institute of Operational Risk - Asia Chapter was established in Hong Kong on 21 June 2010 as an extension of Institute of Operational Risk which was established in January 2004.
It is an organisation that has as its primary aim the promotion of skills and standards associated with Operational Risk Management.
It is an independent, not for profit, professional body designed to support its members through the provision of:
- High standards - against which membership and professional competency is judged
- External events - for the promotion of ideas, ongoing professional development and networking
- Research - to assist the above and ensure the continual improvement of methods, techniques and knowledge
- A Knowledge Centre – the development of a robust and informative knowledge centre for operational risk management
- Sound Practice Guidance – the development of a series of Sound Practice Guidance papers providing the know-how for a variety of risk management practices
Korea Association of Risk Professionls
The Korea Association of Risk Professionls (KARP) was founded in 2000 as a nonprofit association, consisted of professionals across all asset classes with special focus on risk management and derivatives. The members work at most of major financial intuitions in Korea and renowned professors in academia.
KARP is a pioneering opinion channel, which collects voices of market dealers, traders, quants, and risk managers, and appeals to the government to reflect the views of the market leaders in their policy making. In addition, government officers and experts from financial agencies such as Bank of Korea and Financial Supervisory Service participate as special members in KOSDA session meetings to exchange professional information.
KARP provides its members a chance to discuss about securing recognition of derivatives, promoting sound risk management practices, and advancing treatment of derivatives and risk management from public policy and regulatory capital perspectives.
KARP's vision is to empower them (who are they-clients or member) to make things done in the field of the risk management & derivatives market.
The mission of the Treasury Markets Association (TMA) is to further promote the professionalism and competitiveness of the treasury markets in Hong Kong through the following functions:
- Developing appropriate codes and standards for the treasury markets
- Promoting market and product development
- Enhancing the professionalism of market practitioners
- Promoting the profile of Hong Kong as the preferred hub for treasury market businesses in the Asia Pacific region
The TMA is formed by institutionalising the previous Treasury Markets Forum of Hong Kong and the merger with the ACI-The Financial Markets Association of Hong Kong.
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