Previous meetings held by UBS

The Chapman Consulting Group co-hosted a vocal and energised HR leaders gathering with UBS in Singapore yesterday. We were joined by a fantastic group of regional and global HR heads to discuss and share thoughts on the HR challenges faced today in the financial services industry. Representatives from a range of organisations were present including Standard Chartered, HSBC, Chubb, JP Morgan, ANZ, AIG, Swiss Re, AXA, Deutsche Bank and UBS. The initial debate centered on the challenges financial services organisations now face with the increased regulation around ‘local’ versus ‘foreign’ employees and how this affects the talent agenda. With the…

UBS hosted The Chapman Consulting Group’s Global HR Briefing Series in Zurich today. Paul Greene, a Managing Director HR with UBS, and previously a close contact of the company from his Singapore stint in 2008-2010, welcomed participants to the meeting, joined by Matthew Chapman and Oscar Fuchs. Over the two-hour meeting, Matthew Chapman lead a lively discussion on Emerging and APAC Markets HR talent trends, and participants shared their own personal examples of how these trends were being applied to their organisations. Global HR Leaders were in attendance from companies such as Syngenta, Swiss Re, Alstom Power, Hilti, Covidien, Roche,…

Banking HR Leaders met in Hong Kong at the Quarter 4 Banking HR APAC update hosted at UBS and chaired by The Chapman Consulting Group. It had been three months since we last met and there was a lot to be discussed. The banking sector remains sluggish in Singapore, Hong Kong and Japan. HR Leaders are looking more at how to drive efficiency in HR processes and needing to demonstrate their value-add to business leaders by acting on critical issues. The points noted during the meeting included: Increased regulatory complexity is causing headaches for HR in Asia and this is…

Regional, Sub Regional and Singapore Heads of HR got together for a breakfast discussion last week on 10 May at the offices of UBS to discuss some of the latest HR issues in the banking sector in Singapore. 2010 was a year of high growth for many banks across the region and this has caused headaches in stabilising regional and country HR structures. It was also a record year for HR talent movements with many companies having higher than normal attrition as the market has heated up. The breakfast discussion looked at the challenges for the rest of 2011, especially…