Who’s Who Interviews

FST Media: What are your priorities for the next 12 to 18 months? de Ferrieres: Insurance industry, in general, and AXA in Asia, in particular, are mainly underwriting-focused, process centric and risk-obsessed. The notions of customer, value proposition, and willingness...

FST Media: What are your IT priorities for the next 12 to 18 months? Maniar: Our top IT priority is to provide valuable partnership to our businesses and deliver innovative IT and process solutions that will help them scale, operate...

FST Media: What are your priorities for the next 12 to 18 months? Moore: DBS has made significant investments in systems and people to meet the growing needs in the global environment for safeguarding against financial crime. My focus over...

FST Media: What are your priorities for the next 12 to 18 months? Teo: Barclays is changing. We want to make Barclays the ‘Go-To’ bank for all our stakeholders. [Internal] Control is one of the areas we are focusing our...

FST Media: What are your priorities for the next 12 to 18 months? James: My major initiatives are around enterprise mobility, which has become a bit of a buzz word in the industry. It is also important to our bank. Over the last...

FST Media: What are your plans for the next 12 to 18 months? Cobban: We are looking at three priorities across technology. As a bank, you always have to have a priority around stability of your system security. Every bank...

FST Media: What are your priorities for the next 12 to 18 months? Poedjirahardjo: In 2009, CIMB Niaga started its journey on building the bank’s branchless banking proposition. It has since been fulfilling its mission by making banking more accessible to...

FST Media: What are your priorities for the next 12 to 18 months? Crespin: We are focused on exploiting the capabilities and data assets that have been invested and accumulated over the years. We have acquired leading capabilities in various...

As part of the final edition of FST Media’s Asia newsletter for 2013, the team of journalists compiled the “Top 10” list of the most widely-read interviews from the popular Who’s Who weekly interviews.   Based on the highest click...

FST Media: What are your priorities for the next 12 to 18 months? Jaya: As a micro banking player in the market, we focus year by year on how we can grow our business. The tight competition in the market...

FST Media: What are your IT priorities for the next 12 to 18 months? Shew: When I joined RHB Insurance, the legacy systems were too old to support today’s business growth rate.  The business decision is to change the legacy...

Sainsbury: What are your priorities for the next 12-18 months? Khor: Transaction banking in its current form is experiencing unparalleled growth in Malaysia. Coupled with direct banking via alternate channels, it has seen the migration of branch-based transactions to electronic...

Sainsbury: What are your priorities for the next 12 to 18 months? Seth: We are on an overall transformation journey for our channels. We are looking at enhancing the value of what the customer derives from each and every interaction...

Sainsbury: What are your priorities for the next 12-18 months? Lee: The concept of data management is relatively new in a lot of financial institutions.  Bank of China (Hong Kong) is one of the visionary banks that has set up...

Sainsbury: What are your priorities for the next 12-18 months? Paredes: Citibank Vietnam initiated its consumer bank operation relatively recently. So far we have successfully launched credit cards, personal loans, deposits, Citigold as our premium integrated offering, insurance, referrals to...