BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//PYVOBJECT//NONSGML Version 1//EN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Asia/Singapore BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20000101T000000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=1 TZNAME:+08 TZOFFSETFROM:+0800 TZOFFSETTO:+0800 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20261012T083855Z - 10452@fwa DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Singapore:20140804T080000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Singapore:20140804T080000 CREATED:20261012T083855Z DESCRIPTION:One woman'\;s career journey from back office banking to ING boss in Singapore\nWe are pleased to share a story written by Simon Mortlock of efinancialcareer s. The story is as follows and is reproduced with permission as below. Cat herine Low is part of the FWA Singapore exco and serves as our current Tre asurer. We are so proud of her! Bravo Catherine - you make us proud. One w oman’s career journey from back office banking to ING boss in Singapore by Simon Mortlock 25 July 2014 C Low Catherine Low began her banking caree r more than 20 years ago by working in the back office – now she’s in charge of hundreds of staff\, from operations to sales\, as Asia head of t rade and commodity finance (TCF) and structured export finance\, and as co untry manager for Singapore at ING Bank. Low\, who sits on the executive c ommittee of the Financial Women’s Association of Singapore\, joined the Dutch bank in 2003\, having worked in TCF roles at Standard Chartered\, Ra iffeisen Zentralbank\, BNP Paribas and Fortis. She chatted to eFinancialCa reers about how a grounding in the back office helped to kick start her ma nagerial career and why ING has been hiring in TCF in Asia. Tell us about your early career I spent my first four years in various back-office opera tional roles\, from financial-markets settlement to international payments . Then I moved into trade and commodity financing – first as a credit an alyst\, then moving into sales-cum-relationship-management roles\, progres sing from junior to more senior positions. How did you make that move with out a sales background? While I may have started behind my sales peers\, m y ops background meant I caught up quickly and ultimately it helped me get promoted. My time in ops helped me provide a quality service in sales bec ause I could understand the bank’s end-to-end capabilities and view our products and services more holistically. I also understood the importance of team dynamics – having great sales skills alone isn’t all it [...] DTSTAMP:20261012T083855Z LOCATION:Financial Women's Association (Singapore)\, 111 North Bridge Road\ ,\, #21-01 Peninsula Plaza\,\, Singapore 179098\, Singapore SUMMARY:One woman's career journey from back office banking to ING boss in Singapore END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR