<div class=newsTextDataWrapInner><p>KUALA LUMPUR (June 19): Korn Ferry has appointed Armin Effendi as the firm's country chairman for Malaysia.</p></div>

<div class=newsTextDataWrapInner><p>In a statement today, the global organisational consulting firm said Armin most recently served as Kuala Lumpur office leader for a global executive search firm and was part of the Asean leadership team.</p></div>

<div class=newsTextDataWrapInner><p>"Throughout his career, Armin has worked in executive and advisory roles across Asia, Europe and North America," it added.</p></div><div class=inPageAd id=div-gpt-ad-inpage></div>

<div class=newsTextDataWrapInner><p>He has worked as a senior consultant with Bain and Co in its London and Singapore offices. He served as director of strategy products at Accenture, director of consulting at KPMG and was general manager of international business development at Petroliam Nasional Bhd.</p></div>

<div class=newsTextDataWrapInner><p>Armin has also been a congressional adviser to US Senator Bill Roth, as well as analyst and special assistant to the director-general at the Institute of Strategic and International Studies, Malaysia.</p></div>


KUALA LUMPUR (June 19): Korn Ferry has appointed Armin Effendi as the firm's country chairman for Malaysia.

In a statement today, the global organisational consulting firm said Armin most recently served as Kuala Lumpur office leader for a global executive search firm and was part of th...

Armin Effendi is Korn Ferry's country chairman for Malaysia

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<p>Indonesia's budget deficit this year is forecast to widen to 2.7% of gross domestic product on an estimated rise in spending due to the rupiah's depreciation and as tax revenue from the mining sector declines, its finance minister said on Monday.</p>


<p>Stocks closed at all-time highs in a cautious session that saw traders gearing up for Jerome Powell’s testimony to Congress and the start of the earnings season.</p>

<p>With a mere 0.1% advance, the S&amp;P 500 notched its 35th record this year. Some of the largest American&nbsp;banks&nbsp;will unofficially kick off the second-quarter reporting season Friday — and expectations are on the rise</p>


<p>Jerome Powell will face pressure this week from lawmakers growing impatient for the Federal Reserve to cut interest rates and others who are unhappy with its latest plan to boost capital requirements for Wall Street lenders.</p>

<p>The Fed chair heads to Capitol Hill on Tuesday and Wednesday for his semiannual testimony, more than two years after he and his colleagues began hiking rates in a bid to curb surging inflation</p>


<p>China’s local government financing vehicles are chipping away at their $1.6 trillion pile of debt, as regulators aim to curb the sector’s&nbsp;credit risk.&nbsp;</p>

<p>LGFVs saw their largest quarterly financing outflow in the second quarter since Fitch Ratings Inc. began to track the data in 2018.</p>
