Singapore’s financial sector looks to internal hiring, reskilling and flexible structures to fill manpower gaps

Singapore’s financial sector looks to internal hiring, reskilling and flexible structures to fill manpower gaps

AMID high-profile layoffs that have hit some global banks, financial-services firms are still grappling with a shortage of good talent. And increasingly, they are looking at hiring from within, reskilling their employees and using more flexible leadership structures, market players say. “Banks are increasingly opting for alternative strategies to retain experienced talents,” Charnele Tan, assistant…

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Weakening Of Hezbollah Allowed Lebanon To Fill Vacant Presidency

Weakening Of Hezbollah Allowed Lebanon To Fill Vacant Presidency

The weakening of Hezbollah in last year’s war with Israel allowed Lebanon’s long deadlocked parliament to reach consensus around a president who has the confidence of the international community. Army chief Joseph Aoun, who was elected on Thursday ending a more than two-year vacancy, signalled a readjustment of Lebanon’s foreign policy as the country works…

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Trump Names Trade Envoy, Top Economic Advisor To Fill Policy Team

Trump Names Trade Envoy, Top Economic Advisor To Fill Policy Team

Donald Trump on Tuesday named Jamieson Greer his trade representative, a key figure in implementing the president-elect’s economic agenda, particularly his plans to use tariffs to raise revenue and help bring more manufacturing to US shores. Trump also picked Kevin Hassett as his top economic advisor, bringing the member of his first administration to head…

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William Returns To Fill Royal Void As King Charles Faces Cancer Treatment

William Returns To Fill Royal Void As King Charles Faces Cancer Treatment

With his father King Charles III undergoing treatment for cancer and his wife recovering from surgery, Britain’s Prince William will return to royal frontline duties on Wednesday. The king’s shock cancer diagnosis, announced on Monday, and Catherine’s abdominal operation have left William shouldering a heavy royal burden. William, 41, Charles’s eldest son and heir to…

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Gazans Fill Streets Heading Home As Truce Begins

Gazans Fill Streets Heading Home As Truce Begins

With children and pets in their arms and their belongings loaded onto donkey carts or car roofs thousands of displaced Gazans headed home Friday as a four-day Israel-Hamas truce began. The din of war was replaced by the horns of traffic jams and sirens of ambulances making their way through crowds emerging from hospitals where…

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EU Says Can’t Fill US Funding Gap Supporting Ukraine

EU Says Can’t Fill US Funding Gap Supporting Ukraine

The European Union vowed steadfast support for Ukraine at a summit Thursday but warned leaders — including Ukrainian President Volodmyr Zelensky — it would not be able to fully fill any funding gap left by the United States. Fears have been ignited by political turmoil in Washington, which on Wednesday prompted President Joe Biden to…

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‘Big Shoes To Fill’: Paris Crowd Greets Charles III

‘Big Shoes To Fill’: Paris Crowd Greets Charles III

As thousands lined the famed Champs-Elysees to catch a glimpse of Charles III on Wednesday, many said they wondered how the king would follow in the footsteps of his mother, Queen Elizabeth, who was much loved in France. Shortly after landing on their first state visit to France, Charles III and Queen Camilla joined French…

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