Interview with Vietnam Wealth Association and AFA Capital
on the GameStop Short Squeeze Saga
on the GameStop Short Squeeze Saga
5 Feb 2021
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Riding Asia’s Emerging Financial Markets – Opportunities & Risks
Asia’s Emerging Financial Markets (AEFMs) can be diverse and complex. Currencies are not freely traded. Markets can be volatile and derivative products available for hedging are not fully developed. All of which could have significant impact on funding, hedging and risk management decisions. Ground knowledge and insights to regulations, hidden costs and other market idiosyncrasies could provide competitive advantage in AEFMs. This workshop aims to provide a practitioner’s approach to maximise opportunities and avoid potential painful pitfalls.
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Navigating Asian Emerging Financial Markets
Are you are keen to know what the key differences between Emerging and Developed Markets are?
What really drives these markets? How about learning a framework to help you succeed and avoid the landmines when venturing into Asian Emerging Market? You need not look further! In collaboration with the Association of Financial Professionals, we are proud to present to you our 4-hour online course on Navigating Asian Emerging Financial Markets. Enrollment is now opened ! Click on the link to sign up now! https://www.afponline.org/training/training/live-instructor-led/navigating-asian-emerging-financial-markets |
FX Options: An Alternative Way to Trade FX for Retail and Financial Institutions
(published on CME Group's website)
15 Sep 2020 - Thomas Poh
FX trading opportunities aheadIt has been over six months since the COVID-19 pandemic hit the global economy and sent financial markets into one of the wildest rides ever seen. Extreme market volatility was seen across all markets with unprecedented markets dislocations. With the Fed’s intervention, by announcing QE Infinity in March, financial markets has since embarked on a dramatic turnaround. Gold and Nasdaq both hit all-time highs, while yields dropped to rock bottom. The FX market also went on a roller coaster ride. The DXY Dollar-index made a big reversal since its near 9% spike in March mainly driven the Fed’s relief measures, the eurozone’s agreement to a EUR 750 billion pandemic fund, and the escalation of the COVID-19 spread in the US
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https://www.cmegroup.com/education/articles-and-reports/fx-options-an-alternative-way-to-trade-fx.html
https://www.cmegroup.com/education/articles-and-reports/navigating-the-choppy-markets-with-fx-options-a-retail-traders-perspective-on-fx-trading.html
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https://www.cmegroup.com/education/articles-and-reports/fx-options-an-alternative-way-to-trade-fx.html
https://www.cmegroup.com/education/articles-and-reports/navigating-the-choppy-markets-with-fx-options-a-retail-traders-perspective-on-fx-trading.html
3 Part Futures training series with FUTU HK and CME Group
- Part 2 Drivers of FX Markets
12 Aug 2021
3 Part Futures training series with FUTU HK and CME Group
- Part 1 Basics of FX Futures
05 Aug 2021
BF 3209 - Students' feedback survey
BF 3209 - Students' feedback survey
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Appointed Speaker for SGX Academy
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SMU-Deloitte Corporate Financial Risk Management Masterclass |
The SMU-Deloitte Corporate Financial Risk Management Masterclass is a series of two-day workshops that provide a holistic approach to effective foreign exchange, liquidity and debt management.
This Oct workshop focuses on Foreign Exchange (FX) risk management. Delivered through a combination of lectures, case discussions and sharing from practitioners, participants will gain practical knowledge and valuable insights to identify currency risks and effectively manage FX exposures in their organisations. Thomas Poh
Facilitator SMU Academy Thomas has 20 over years of experience in trading and managing FX, interest rate and derivative products in Emerging Markets for global banks. He left the banking sector to head up his own training and consulting company in 2018. |
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START DATE(S) 11 Oct 2019 (Fri) INTAKE INFORMATION11 & 12 Oct 2019 (Fri & Sat) Program is held from 9am - 5pm |
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The entire ACTA course and assessment covers 6 modules over 102 hours of lessons and spanning 4 months. Although 102 hours over a 4-month period do not seem much, this does not include the time spent on preparing deliverable and group work. In addition, this is my first experience attending a prolong course as an Adult Learner. With it, comes challenges with schedule management and simply getting used to classroom learning after an absence of 25 years. In the weeks that followed, I became one of the classic example of a typical Adult Learner that ACTA is preparing us to train!
For starters, I had to do quite a fair bit of "un-learning". As the saying goes, you cannot fill a bucket that is already full. Throughout the course, I constantly get to clear out cobwebs in my mind. It is not everyday that you get to spring clean your thoughts in your mind. I had to learn the theory behind the science and art of training which helped put my real-world life experiences into perspective and reorganize them into a more holistic mental model
Group work is the other highlight of this ACTA course. I had the pleasure to work with a group of awesome course mates. Given the diverse backgrounds and industries that we come from, each participant brought with them different yet rich life experiences. This diversity really opened up my mind and take on different perspectives. As Confucius says: 三人之行,必有我师 which vaguely means "we will always learn something when we are in the company of others". Coming from a relatively niche part of the financial industry, this interaction with my group mates from different industries serves as a good opportunity to reflect on how silo-ed one is after years working on the trading floor. Like the Chinese saying, 读万卷书,不如行万里路 - nothing beats learning from people as compared to reading from books and market reports.
And then, there are my 2 trainers. Which cannot be more different in their styles and approaches. I have re-learnt that there are indeed many ways to skin the cat. Observing my trainers in action became a learning experience itself. Scenes of Leonardo DiCaprio's "Inceptions"-like scenarios keep repeating themselves during the course as we had role-plays on how to do role-plays and I even made a presentation on "how to make a good presentation" (within a course that teaches good presentation skills!).
So now, I am proud and happy to say that I too, have joined the many that have been graded Chicago. I would like thank my trainers Darren Tjia and Wendy Wan for their time and patience as well as my classmates for their support and camaraderie that have made this a memorable experience. Something to share as I continue on my new journey as a trainer and consultant.
Never... stop... learning.
For starters, I had to do quite a fair bit of "un-learning". As the saying goes, you cannot fill a bucket that is already full. Throughout the course, I constantly get to clear out cobwebs in my mind. It is not everyday that you get to spring clean your thoughts in your mind. I had to learn the theory behind the science and art of training which helped put my real-world life experiences into perspective and reorganize them into a more holistic mental model
Group work is the other highlight of this ACTA course. I had the pleasure to work with a group of awesome course mates. Given the diverse backgrounds and industries that we come from, each participant brought with them different yet rich life experiences. This diversity really opened up my mind and take on different perspectives. As Confucius says: 三人之行,必有我师 which vaguely means "we will always learn something when we are in the company of others". Coming from a relatively niche part of the financial industry, this interaction with my group mates from different industries serves as a good opportunity to reflect on how silo-ed one is after years working on the trading floor. Like the Chinese saying, 读万卷书,不如行万里路 - nothing beats learning from people as compared to reading from books and market reports.
And then, there are my 2 trainers. Which cannot be more different in their styles and approaches. I have re-learnt that there are indeed many ways to skin the cat. Observing my trainers in action became a learning experience itself. Scenes of Leonardo DiCaprio's "Inceptions"-like scenarios keep repeating themselves during the course as we had role-plays on how to do role-plays and I even made a presentation on "how to make a good presentation" (within a course that teaches good presentation skills!).
So now, I am proud and happy to say that I too, have joined the many that have been graded Chicago. I would like thank my trainers Darren Tjia and Wendy Wan for their time and patience as well as my classmates for their support and camaraderie that have made this a memorable experience. Something to share as I continue on my new journey as a trainer and consultant.
Never... stop... learning.
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SMU-Deloitte Corporate Financial Risk Management Masterclass |
FX ManagementGlobalisation and digitisation are driving the transformation of finance and treasury functions. Senior finance professionals need to move beyond their traditional roles as stewards to become strategists and catalysts for change in their organisations.
Recognising the challenges arising from market volatility and technology disruption, Deloitte and Singapore Management University are collaborating to offer a series of Corporate Financial Risk Management Masterclasses at the SMU Academy. The SMU-Deloitte Corporate Financial Risk Management Masterclass is a series of two-day workshops that provide a holistic approach to effective foreign exchange, liquidity and debt management. This Oct workshop focuses on Foreign Exchange (FX) risk management. Delivered through a combination of lectures, case discussions and sharing from practitioners, participants will gain practical knowledge and valuable insights to identify currency risks and effectively manage FX exposures in their organisations. |
Thomas Poh
Facilitator SMU Academy Thomas has 20 over years of experience in trading and managing FX, interest rate and derivative products in Emerging Markets for global banks. He left the banking sector to head up his own training and consulting company in 2018. SCHEDULE
START DATE(S) 11 Oct 2019 (Fri) INTAKE INFORMATION11 & 12 Oct 2019 (Fri & Sat) Program is held from 9am - 5pm |
掌握變動局勢下金融交易趨勢與避險策略探討 |
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目前美中貿易紛爭難免影響全球經濟成長,而投資人如何因應全球經濟放緩、美中貨幣政策如何牽動全球匯率市場波動、英國脫歐議題所引發的地緣政治風險、美國公債殖利率倒掛是否代表經濟已步入衰退?...等這些都是近期讓投資人既關心也擔憂的議題。 有鑒於此,台灣金融研訓院將陸續舉辦「決戰全球金融市場系列」研討會,持續聚焦資本市場商品創新之相關議題,邀集專家從投資銀行、套利交易者、避險基金等多元視角,深入剖析金融市場未來發展與創新動態。此次與芝商所(CME Group)共同舉辦「掌握變動局勢下金融交易趨勢與避險策略探討」,期望透過專家分享經驗與專業見解,協助金融機構與國內相關投資者提升產業資訊,掌握市場現況與未來趨勢 |
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