We are pleased to have with us, Suhaimi Zainul-Abidin, CEO of Quantedge Capital, a successful hedge fund founded in Singapore. Suhaimi is also a director of Quantedge Foundation and holds several board and equivalent positions at a number of Singapore government-related agencies and entities, including the National Environment Agency, and the SkillsFuture Singapore Agency. He is passionate about leadership development, business strategy, social impact, governance and risk management.

Today’s topic is on Risk Management, which is the process of identifying, assessing and controlling financial, legal, strategic and security risks to an organization's capital and earnings. Suhaimi shares how he identifies risk and manages it from his position, and reveals the biggest risk that everyone, especially corporations, should be concerned about.

ethBeats is a podcast of the ⁠ethBe ⁠platform, supported by RHT GRACE Institute, a nonprofit organisation. We welcome you to be part of the ethBe community here: ⁠https://ethbe.org⁠. If you’d like to be a guest or to nominate someone on our podcast, please do contact us at [email protected]

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Today, our guest is no stranger to managing complex issues and to holding himself to the highest standards of governance. We are very honoured to welcome Mr Patrick Tay to our podcast. Mr Tay is a lawyer by training, and has spent the better part of the last three decades volunteering at grassroots level in his community, and championing workers’ rights. Mr Tay is currently the Assistant Secretary-General in Singapore’s National Trades Union Congress, an organization uniting many trade unions and associations, social enterprises and other partners in creating better lives for workers in Singapore.  He is also a member of Parliament, and brings his experience and passion for improving the lives of his constituents.

Today’s topic is on Governance. Governance refers to the overarching concept of controls and standards to govern relationships in a system. In the business world, we hear about “corporate governance”, which refers to the principles, practices, rules and processes by which a corporate entity is run, whether it is a company, a partnership, a nonprofit organization or a government body.

ethBeats is a podcast of the ⁠ethBe ⁠platform, supported by RHT GRACE Institute, a nonprofit organisation. We welcome you to be part of the ethBe community here: ⁠https://ethbe.org⁠. If you’d like to be a guest or to nominate someone on our podcast, please do contact us at [email protected]

Until the next time, stay healthy, stay positive.

Welcome to ethBeats, Lessons for G.R.A.C.E.ful Living, the podcast of the ethBe platform.

What do we mean by the acronym G.R.A.C.E. in G.R.A.C.E.ful living?

"G" stands for Governance, the overarching concept of controls and standards to govern relationships in a system, whether it is a business, a partnership, a company, a nonprofit or government organisation. Relationships between and among different stakeholders.

Part of Governance relates to Risk, the "R" in G.R.A.C.E., and in the digital age of fast paced life, how does an organisation manage the different types of risk?

A key component of risk for organisations relates to Anti-money laundering; in this age of digital financial transactions, new risks arising from fintech innovation - this is the "A" in G.R.A.C.E.

So a robust compliance framework and system is critical in safeguarding stakeholders’ interests in any organisation. So, the "C" in G.R.A.C.E. stands for Compliance.

We come to “E”. There are 2 meanings of “E” for us. As professionals in different areas, we know that business dealings can be complicated and often it’s hard to see things in black and white, right and wrong terms. Thus, one key concept underlying Governance is Ethics, and Ethics is core to this podcast.

The second meaning of "E" is something that connects all of us, regardless of class, race, gender or religion. The world grapples with climate change and the environmental impact on livelihoods around the world - so "E" stands for Environment and Social in the ESG framework.

Our podcasts will follow the iterations of GRACE. In the next podcast, we welcome our guest to talk about governance, so please do join us.

ethBeats is a podcast of the ethBe platform, supported by RHT GRACE Institute, a nonprofit organisation. We welcome you to be part of the ethBe community here: https://ethbe.org. If you’d like to be a guest or to nominate someone on our podcast, please do contact us at [email protected]

Until the next time, stay healthy, stay positive.