SINGAPORE, Sept. 29 /PRNewswire-Asia/ --
The Banking Conversation targets senior figures and thought leaders
-- Chairmen, CEOs, central bank governors, and industry stalwarts engage
with the industry through The Banking Conversation
-- The Banking Conversation offers broad distribution of thought
leadership
-- A wide variety of formats and discussion opportunities create a
community and a forum for debate
The Asian Banker's new platform for industry discussion, The Banking Conversation ( http://www.thebankingconversation.com ), is a venue for senior industry figures-chairmen and CEOs, top regulators, chief economists, and respected statesmen of the industry-to present ideas and opinions on the current financial and economic dilemma that is shaking the world.
"The level of engagement we have developed with senior leaders in the industry is staggering," says Emmanuel Daniel, President and CEO of The Asian Banker. "We want to make sure that we are developing the proper channels to get exposure for these very experienced people and their ideas, many of which will be instrumental in helping us sort out the trouble that we are in."
Chairmen, CEOs, central bank governors, and industry stalwarts engage with the industry through The Banking Conversation
By engaging in a broad issues-based discussion with series anchor Emmanuel Daniel, who has more than 15 years experience as a journalist and interviewer, senior industry commentators are looking to solve problems the industry is facing, not only in the current turmoil but also much further ahead.
Among the senior figures whose videos are available are:
-- Stephen Green, Chairman, HSBC Holdings
-- Dick Kovacevich, Chairman, Wells Fargo
-- Mike Smith, CEO, ANZ Banking Group
-- KV Kamath, Chairman, ICICI Bank
-- Lazaro Campos, CEO, SWIFT
-- Julie Dickson, Superintendent, Office of the Superintendent of
Financial Services, Canada
-- Chuck Prince, former Chairman and CEO, Citigroup
-- Sir Howard Davies, former chairman of the UK's FSA
-- Malcolm Knight, former GM, Bank for International Settlements
-- Craig Donohue, CEO, CME Group
-- Jim Rogers, investor
-- Malcolm Gladwell, author, Tipping Point, Blink and Outliers
The Banking Conversation offers broad distribution of thought leadership
Interviews on The Banking Conversation are permanently available for free online. They will form a repository of knowledge on key topics, which are outlined in the platform's cataloguing system as well as a description of key topics and ideas that are presented in 10-minute segments.
The Banking Conversation also has a distribution contract in place with Thomson Reuters, which will distribute it through their Project Insider platform -- the new financial TV experience set to be available to 500,000 of their desktop subscribers worldwide.
A wide variety of formats and discussion opportunities create a community and a forum for debate
Interviews are presented not only in streaming video format, but also in downloadable video files and audio files. For key interviews, transcripts have also been made available. All interviews can be quoted from, on the condition that full attribution be made to The Banking Conversation and The Asian Banker.
With the opportunities presented by social media, The Banking Conversation is taking full advantage of the features made available by Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook to build communities around it. Already a LinkedIn community is growing, and readily engages in discussions around key topics. The Banking Conversation asks viewers to suggest questions for upcoming interviews, and Emmanuel Daniel posts descriptions of meeting with bankers, such as Chuck Prince or KV Kamath, on LinkedIn and Facebook, as well as his personal blog http://www.emmanueldaniel.com . New interviews are announced on LinedIn and Twitter.
About The Asian Banker
The Asian Banker is the foremost provider of strategic business intelligence in the financial services industry in the Asia Pacific and Middle East regions. The organization has offices in Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Beijing and Dubai as well as representatives in Shanghai, London and New York. With a business that revolves around publications, research services, training and forums, the organization is highly regarded in the financial services community for its incisive and independent commentaries on developments in the industry. The company's website is http://www.theasianbanker.com .
Appendix:
Selected quotes from key interviewees:
"The trouble that we're in today is because of the failure, not of regulations, but of regulators. What regulations did the banking regulators not have that allowed the banks to get in the kind of trouble that they did?"
-- Dick Kovacevich, Chairman, Wells Fargo
"We expect our risk-weighted assets in faster-growing markets to continue to increase. There will be opportunities to grow market share in some key markets, because what we are seeing through this crisis is the withdrawal of some banks from these markets where they are not in their core businesses."
-- Stephen Green, Chairman, HSBC Holdings
"There wasn't really a sense of a lack of transparency. But there was a real sense that the financial instruments themselves turned out be far more complex than people thought."
-- Chuck Prince, former Chairman and CEO of Citigroup
"It was the regulated areas that caused the problems; now they're calling for more regulation. It wasn't regulation that was the problem, it was regulators-they were incompetent people, they didn't do what they were supposed to."
-- Jim Rogers, investor
"During the last crisis, each one of us [in Asia] dealt with the problems individually, but the region has come together now. We have a blueprint of areas of collaboration."
-- Zeti Akhtar Aziz, governor of Bank Negara, Malaysia's central bank, on
the need for more global regulatory coordination to help deal with
financial crises.
"If you take the entire financial services spectrum, India is more open than 98% of all other countries."
-- KV Kamath, chairman of India's ICICI Bank, on the need to establish
level playing fields
"It was quite clear that ultimately, in a bank failure, the government has to underwrite it; and we've seen that all over the world."
-- Sir Howard Davies, former chairman of the UK Financial Services
Authority, on the lack of leadership in the Northern Rock failure
"Regional cooperation, which will eventually lead to greater integration within Asia, will be quite a critical process."
-- Chartsiri Sophonpanich, president and CEO of Bangkok Bank, on the need
for Asian economies to increase intra-regional trade
"The opportunities that are not coming out as a result of the crisis are, of course, extraordinary. We would not have foreseen that 18 months ago."
-- Mike Smith, CEO of Australia's ANZ Banking Group, on Asia expansion
opportunities
For more information please contact:
Nicole Chan
Tel: +65-6236-6496
Mobile: +65-9155-9568
Email: nchan@theasianbanker.com