Once again the Accounting/Banking and Finance/Financial Risk Management Specialisation Committee of VU @ Sunway programme successfully organised another Knowledge Session with Alliance Bank Malaysia Bhd. The talk by Mr. Manokaran Mottain, Chief Economist of Alliance Bank was titled “Lessons from Financial Crises: Have we learnt our lesson?” The session saw a breakthrough attendance with a turnout of 131 students (with 92% coming from the VU @ Sunway Program, 5% from Pre-U programmes and 3% from SUBS) in addition to 7 members of staff.
Mr. Manokaran Mottain explained the indicative signals towards a financial crisis. He elaborated using secondary data from Bank Negara and Treasury to explain the various outstanding components in identifying the health of the economy. Students made it a point to engage with the speaker during the Q & A session and fruitful explanations were presented. Students found the talk to be of relevance and highly informative.
The next Knowledge Session will be held on 5th May 2016 @ JC 2, 12.30pm.
