The banking sector, being a talent-intensive service industry, is subject to a wide range of transformations which percolate through the various strata of the sector and which ultimately affect the quality of its throughput. With talents and professionals occupying a centerpiece of the sector's output function, productivity in the sector, and its underlying competitiveness, can only be enhanced through constant upskilling strategies.
Endowing our pool of talent in the banking sector with the latest hard and soft skills, especially those pertaining to regulatory overhauls and to digitization, is tantamount to implementing labor-embodied technological progress in the sector. This is our passport towards ensuring a competitive and resilient sector that can navigate fearlessly through various storms, whilst ensuring enhanced contribution to our GDP.