On July 29, 2019 at the headquarters of the State Bank of Vietnam (SBV), Deputy Governor Nguyen Thi Hong had a meeting with Ms. Foo Mee Har, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Wealth Management Institute (WMI), Singapore.
At the meeting, Deputy Governor Nguyen Thi Hong welcomed WMI CEO Foo Mee Har to visit and work with the SBV. At the same time, the SBV Deputy Governor expressed her thanks to the WMI, Temasek Foundation Cares (TFC) and the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) for having supported many SBV officials to join various long and short-term training courses.
Over the past time, the SBV has sent its officials to participate in the training programs organized by TFC and the WMI, which are relevant to the functions of monetary policy making, management of functional operations at a central bank, as well as in accordance with the requirements of the international economic integration and the demands of restructuring the credit institutions’ system in Vietnam. All Vietnamese trainees in the courses have very high evaluation about the contents, the organization modality, the knowledge provided, and the relevance of the training programs.
Deputy Governor Nguyen Thi Hong hoped that, in the coming time, the SBV would continue get the support from MAS, TFC and especially the WMI in order to enhance the capabilities of the SBV officials.
For her part, CEO Foo Mee Har thanked the SBV Deputy Governor for her hospitality and shared that the WMI is an autonomous institute at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, as well as a practice-based education and research institute. The WMI was established in 2003 with the support of Temasek and the GIC of Singapore, to catalyse Singapore’s growth ambition as a premier international wealth management centre…
Moreover, the two sides also discussed the training demands and orientations of the SBV in the coming time, as well as the training courses and programs that the WMI could coordinate and support the SBV in the fields of policy-making, monetary policy implementation, management of the money market and the exchange rates; management of the foreign exchange reserves; banking supervision and inspection; management of the payment systems; finance, accounting and auditing; human resources management…They also expressed their hopes that the SBV and the WMI would strengthen further the cooperation in order to formulate and deploy training activities for the SBV officials to have more opportunities to join long and short-term training programs of the WMI.
Le Hang