Webinar: Gearing Up for New and Evolving Jobs in Financial Services

The inaugural Growing Timber webinar featured discussions on the employment outlook of the financial services sector, and how MAS and the Institute of Banking and Finance (IBF) will work with stakeholders to support Singaporeans in accessing job opportunities, and to foster job readiness and job retention in the sector. At the event, MAS and IBF also announced additional measures to strengthen capability building of the local workforce:

  1. A new Work-Study Support Programme (WSSP) to build a strong Singaporean pipeline through integrating classroom learning and on-the-job training for undergraduates; and
  2. The extension of MAS' Training Allowance Grant (TAG) for company-sponsored trainees and IBF’s 5% additional course fee credit by 6 months, from 31 December 2020 to 30 June 2021. 

Event Details

Date 26 November 2020
Time 9.00am – 10.30am
Venue Livestreamed on IBF’s Facebook page  

Programme

Time Item
9:00am Remarks by Mr Ravi Menon, MD, MAS and Chairman, IBF
9:30am

Panel Discussion and Q&A

  • Mr Piyush Gupta, CEO, DBS
  • Mr Dennis Tan, CEO, Prudential
  • Mr Patrick Lee, CEO, SCB
  • Mr Ravi Menon, MD, MAS and Chairman, IBF
  • Mr Ng Nam Sin, CEO, IBF

Resources

Type Title
Speech "Gearing up for New and Evolving Jobs in Financial Services" - Remarks by Mr Ravi Menon, Managing Director, Monetary Authority of Singapore, at Growing Timber Series on 26 November 2020
Media Release Measures to Enhance Job Readiness and Job Retention in Financial Sector

Remarks by Mr Ravi Menon

Panel Discussion