Regulation - Could Brunei Darussalam be Asia's next leading location for Regional Treasury Centres

Rady Roswanddy Roslan and Dr. Petr Polak, Faculty of Economics, VSB - Technical University of Ostrava, Czech Republic and Faculty of Business and Enterprise, Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia

As an increasing number of treasurers seek to centralise their treasury activities through a regional treasury structure, most multinational corporations look towards Singapore or Hong Kong as the location of their regional treasury centre for Asia. However, as these are high cost locations, in a competitive climate, there are potentially newly emerging locations in which to base regional treasury centres. In this article, Rady Roswanddy Roslan and Dr. Petr Polak consider the potential in Brunei Darussalam.