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Yeow Tiang Hui
Yeow Tiang Hui graduated in Economics from the National University of Singapore where he studied International Finance, Banking & Monetary Economics. He obtained his further training in banking and finance from the Institute of Banking & Finance in Singapore, Deutsche Bank Asia Pacific, and Citibank Asia Pacific Banking Institute, where he studied Credit & Financial Analysis, Applied Financial Services, International Trade Finance, Corporate Finance, and Financial Derivative Products.
He has 33 years of experience in banking and investment, having first worked with the small and medium enterprise clients in United Overseas Bank and Citibank N.A. , Singapore. Thenceforth, he moved on to manage the multinational accounts in Deutsche Bank AG, then the large local corporate clients in Citibank/Citicorp Malaysia, where he was also the Vice President in the venture capital outfit, and the Head of Commercial Banking.
From 1997 to 2005, he served as head of the offshore banking business of the French banking group Crédit Industriel et Commercial. The coverage was Malaysia, the Greater China and the Philippines.
From 2007 till 2016, he has served as the Head of Corporate Banking Kuwait Finance House. And in 2012, he set up the client coverage team, housed under the Investment Banking Division.
His last position was the Chief Executive Officer of Alkhair International Islamic Bank Bhd.
He is fluent in (written and spoken) Chinese, English, Malay and the Indonesian languages. Having worked in Singapore, American, German, French, Middle Eastern and Malaysian environments.
Lynette Kwek started her career as an internal auditor working in the financial services sector prior to joining the public accounting practices. During her tenure as an internal auditor, she gained wide exposure to the review of financial and operational business processes in the banking environment. She led process walkthrough and reviews of revenue processes, assessment of systems and manual controls for revenue cycles, general ledger interfaces as well as data analytics for the bank and its subsidiaries in the unit trust, asset management and insurance businesses. Besides her industry experience, she also specialised in the reviews of various IT systems environments in the areas of IT governance, information security management, data management and MIS framework, change management, IT system operations, and implementation of IT projects.
Upon joining the public accounting practice in 2003, she went on to lead and manage a portfolio of audit engagements and risk assurance related projects, which involved sizeable financial services organisations based in and outside of Malaysia. She also led several Sarbanes-Oxley related engagements, IT due diligence, third party assurance reviews, regulatory compliance and outsourced service provider reviews for several local and foreign banks. She was also part of a major IT advisory project for a major bank in the UK when she was attached to one of the big 4 audit firms in London.
Lynette Kwek holds a Master’s Degree (with Distinction) in Accounting and Finance from the University of Birmingham, UK. She is a Fellow of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) UK, a member of the Malaysian Institute of Accountants (MIA) and a member of ISACA.
Lynette enjoys reading and practising pilates in her free time. She also loves to travel with her family and friends to experience the culture and food of different cities.
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