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🌱 The Sustainable Finance Jobs Transformation Map (SF JTM) was launched in April 2024 by Mr. Alvin Tan, Minister of State for Trade and Industry and Board Member of MAS, to support Singapore’s ambition to be Asia’s leading sustainable finance hub.

🖖 The SF JTM outlines the impact of sustainability trends on jobs in Singapore's financial services sector and highlights the emerging skills needed to meet the region's sustainable financing demands.

📆 Join us for a special unboxing edition of the SF JTM, where experts and industry leaders will provide insights into this transformative roadmap and its impact on skills and career

Here are 3 ways to job search effectively🚀

🌌 Keep a log of your job hunting progress
This will help you keep track of the organisations and positions you've applied for and makes it easier for you to set timeframes to follow up with interviewers.

🌠Enhance your Digital Presence
Update your LinkedIn profile with a professional photo, and indicate the skills and experience you would like to highlight to potential employers and recruiters. Make sure to clean up your other social media pages too, removing anything you don’t want a potential employer to see!

🌌Speak to our Career Advisors
Reach out to our team of highly experienced career advisers, who can provide you with personalised advice to help you improve your job search skills and resources for your career development!

🪙Last August, the MAS announced the features of a new stablecoins regulatory framework that seeks to ensure a high degree of value stability for stablecoins regulated in Singapore.

Join this masterclass where three practitioners share insights on the practical applications of the stablecoins regulatory framework as experienced in their different roles as venture capital investor, in-house legal counsel dealing with AML issues and litigator obtaining the grant of legal remedies by the Singapore Court to resolve disputes over stablecoins, as well as, what they see is the future of stablecoins in Singapore.

🌱 Here are 3 ways to make a mid-career pivot into sustainable finance!

1️⃣Keep yourself in the loop with latest developments
Stay up to date with the current news and trends of the ESG space.

2️⃣Prepare yourself with the right skills
Back up your resume with functional skills that suit the responsibilities of sustainable finance roles.

3️⃣Stay connected and grow your network
Interact with like-minded individuals who can help keep you in mind when opportunities arise.

👇🏽Check out the links below to learn how you can start your journey towards a thriving career in sustainable finance today!

Are you in the five stages of grief in your career? Thinking of how a career change into finance could make it better? Check out the useful resources in the link in our bio to find out how IBF can help!

👉 Learn a new skill: IBF Programme Finder
👉 Make a career switch: Career conversion programmes
👉 Get career advice: IBF Careers Connect

🤔 Are your self-introductions compelling enough?

It is important to have an elevator pitch ready that establishes your credibility, makes others curious to find out more about you and leave a lasting impression!

📢 EXPLAIN WHAT YOU DO
Consider the interest of your audience, highlight the relevant ways you bring value, and include statistics where possible.

👄 COMMUNICATE YOUR UNIQUE SELLING PROPOSITION (USP)
Highlight areas that sets you, your business or your ideas apart from others, while keeping to the objective of your pitch.

📞CLOSE WITH A CALL TO ACTION
Wrap up your pitch by encouraging your audience to take a specific action, such as connecting with you on LinkedIn or visiting your business page.

Applications for the IBF Golden Jubilee ITE Scholarship will close on 10 June 2024.

Don’t miss this opportunity to gain industry exposure within the financial sector through internships with participating Financial Institutions, including BNP Paribas, DBS, Great Eastern, Howden, HSBC, J.P. Morgan, Maybank, Mizuho Bank, MSIG, OCBC, Prudential Assurance Company Singapore, Singapore Exchange and UOB.

IBF is turning 50 this year! #ibf50

The story of IBF has been one of partnership and collaboration since its inception in 1974.

In the early years, IBF started off as a training institute. In 2001, IBF repositioned itself to take on a more strategic role of setting competency standards, and accrediting training programmes for the financial sector. In 2018, our mandate expanded to include jobs development. We have continually reinvented ourselves, and co-created many bold initiatives with the industry. Every milestone was only possible with the support of our tripartite partners.

As we celebrate our 50th Anniversary this year, we look forward to strengthening our partnerships to drive professional excellence and career resilience of the financial sector workforce.

Visit our anniversary microsite to learn more about our 50 year journey and Golden Jubilee celebrations!

Today we launched the 🌟IBF Golden Jubilee ITE Scholarship🌟, which would provide 50 eligible ITE final-year students with a study award and a 5-month internship with a financial institution. This initiative would offer selected ITE students the opportunity to gain practical experience and acquire relevant skills within the financial sector.

13 Financial Institutions (FIs), including BNP Paribas, DBS Bank, GREAT EASTERN, HSBC, Howden, J.P. Morgan, Maybank Singapore, Mizuho Bank, MSIG Insurance, OCBC, Prudential Assurance Company Singapore, Singapore Exchange and UOB are partnering IBF and ITE to make this possible.

Memorandums of Understanding (MOUs) were signed between IBF, ITE and the participating FIs to further solidify our collective commitment to provide scholarship and internship opportunities to ITE students and graduates.

🌱 The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) and Institute of Banking and Finance (IBF), supported by Workforce Singapore (WSG), today launched the Sustainable Finance Jobs Transformation Map (JTM), which lays out the impact of sustainability trends on jobs in Singapore’s financial services sector and the emerging skills that the workforce will require to serve sustainable financing demands in the region.

🚀 Give your job search a boost!

💼 Join us in this Career Workshop and learn how you can crack the code to connect with employers, draw attention to your profile and make LinkedIn work for your job search.

💡 Key takeaways include:
• Elements of a good profile
• Why you should have an 'active' profile
• How to connect with target individuals you may not know
• A chance to have your burning questions answered by our Career Advisers

🤿 Dive deep into the world of risk management and compliance within the Financial Sector's Critical Information Infrastructures (CIIs) in this IBF Masterclass!

Hear from Lionel Seaw, Principal Consultant at Sapience Consulting Pte Ltd and a CSA Approved Cybersecurity Code of Practice (CCoP) Auditor, as he helps to demystify the complexities of the Cybersecurity Act and CCoP. He will also cover the evolution of the CCoP since its inception and how it relates to the Monetary Authority of Singapore’s (MAS) Technology Risk Management Guidelines.

Gain a better understanding of the guidelines to help CII owners meet Risk and Audit compliance requirements as specified within the Cybersecurity Act and the CCoP, along with valuable insights on meeting regulatory requirements and pitfalls to avoid.

🪙 How does the law characterise cryptocurrency?

⚖️ The legal status of cryptocurrency has implications on the recourse available to parties transacting with it. Join us at this IBF Webinar with A.B. Maximus & Co, where senior lawyer Ajinderpal Singh will share his insights and unpack complex, technical and recent legal developments marked by several Singapore landmark judgments on the legal status of cryptocurrency.

Happy International Women's Day! 💪

🙌 At IBF, we celebrate the achievements and contributions of women in the financial sector, and recognise the important role that women play in shaping our society and driving innovation and growth.

Today and ✨every day✨, let's celebrate the incredible achievements of women around the world and pledge to continue working towards gender equality!

Our first masterclass with Metacamp will take you through an informative and experiential session on Blockchain and web3 DeFi. Learn the basics, its history and growth, and the use cases of blockchain in finance and web3 in DeFi. Experience web3 DeFi and blockchain with a game during the session!

Find out about the top 10 risks that risk and compliance managers in Asia-Pacific are likely to face in 2024.

Niall Coburn, Senior Regulatory Intelligence Expert for Asia-Pacific, Thomson Reuters will share key highlights from the paper, touching on some of the key risk areas and challenges for the financial services sector in the region, in a short 20 minute presentation.

Join a short panel discussion with leading practitioners to discuss some of the practical implications of these risks and how industry players can address them and upskill in order to be better equipped to manage the risks and challenges presented.

Going through multiple interview rounds can be NERVEWRECKING. Join us at this career workshop to learn how you can tackle common interview questions, learn about blind spots that affect interview outcomes and get your burning questions answered by IBF Career Advisers!

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IBF is turning 50 this year!🎇

As part of our Golden Jubilee celebrations, we are introducing a commemorative logo that reflects the collaborative relationship between government, unions and industry to support the growth of the Financial Sector over the past 50 years and beyond. It embodies the story of our shared vision for the future, and symbolises the purpose that underpins IBF’s mission and mandate to support the industry to continuously learn, un-learn and relearn.

Stay tuned for updates, as we unveil new and exciting announcements! #IBF50

👀 What are employers looking for in regulatory and compliance professionals for 2024? What are the job skills and competencies required to succeed and thrive and how have these changed?

Join WMI for this panel session to cover the market for regulatory and compliance professionals for the new year, including evergreen, new and arising trends and its drivers. This session will address the range of compliance disciplines and possible career paths in both traditional as well as upcoming areas of compliance risk management, what companies are looking for, the types of skills and qualities sought after and examples in the marketplace.