Climate change has garnered more attention and green finance is quickly becoming a key concern in global business practices. We invited four distinguished speakers to discuss on how investment, banking, and fintech can incorporate green finance agendas.
The COVID-19 pandemic has changed the working world as we knew it. The future of work is set to be different due to rapid digital adoption and new working arrangements. Professor Ng Kok Yee shares her insights on how companies can utilise cultural intelligence to create a new cultural differentiator for the post-pandemic era.
Nobel laureate Kenneth Arrow stressed that “virtually every commercial transaction has within itself an element of trust, certainly any transaction conducted over a period of time.” Without trust, the market would not be able to function well, and the cost of doing business would be very high.
A new wave of pervasive digitalisation is redefining the role of digital transformation in business. Digitalisation is now moving beyond integrating tasks and people to connect with intelligent objects as well through innovations such as AI and the Internet of Things.
In an environment with increasingly complex and high-volume data, the use of technology and data analytics allows auditors to gain a deeper understanding of an entity to enhance the quality of an audit.
Using analytics improves audit efficiency by facilitating the performance of tedious tasks, freeing the auditor to focus on risk areas more effectively. The increasing use of analytics is also largely driven by stakeholders’ expectations. In many jurisdictions, including Singapore, auditors are expected to use technology, particularly data analytics, when performing audits.
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