CONVERGE LIVE - Singapore, 22-23 April 2026
When KPMG executive Anton Ruddenklau moved to high-rise Singapore from the leafy streets of a London commuter town, one of the first things he noticed was how easy it was to do business in the Southeast Asian nation.
“People are set up to build relationships here,” he told CNBC by phone.
It was January 2021, and Ruddenklau moved to Singapore to lead KPMG’s financial services advisory practice in the country. “You arrive and you realize that actually the government has a nation-building mindset that’s hugely enabling,” he said.
And, while Ruddenklau said Singapore as a market by itself is “not particularly interesting,” because of its small population, investors like it for its location, English common-law and large private capital markets, he added, describing it as a “hub” for capital flows into and out of Asia.
