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- MAS and the Association of Banks in Singapore (ABS) jointly issued a Study to enhance the resilience of future workplaces of financial institutions (FIs) in Singapore. The Study involved a consortium of consultants with experience in redesign of workplaces, as well as a multi-disciplinary expert panel to provide views on infectious disease management and workplace safety. The Study sets out good practices and recommendations for FIs to review and redesign their workplaces, to better support the well-being
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- Media Releases
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- Singapore, 3 November 2021...The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) today issued a consultation paper on the classification of certain investment products as complex, whereby enhanced safeguards will apply when they are distributed to retail investors. The paper also proposes changes to increase retail investors’ access to diversified investment funds. 2 The consultation seeks to enhance the existing complex products regime Products which are well-established in the market and have terms and conditions
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- Singapore, 3 November 2021...The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) today issued a consultation paper on the classification of certain investment products as complex, whereby enhanced safeguards will apply when they are distributed to retail investors. The paper also proposes changes to increase retail investors’ access to diversified investment funds. 2 The consultation seeks to enhance the existing complex products regime Products which are well-established in the market and have terms and conditions
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- Singapore, 25 November 2019…Mr Joseph Chai Ming Leong (Mr Chai) was today convicted and sentenced to 4 weeks’ imprisonment for furnishing a false statement to Singapore Exchange Derivatives Trading Limited (SGX-DT). His conviction was a result of a joint investigation conducted by the Monetary Authority of Singapore and the Commercial Affairs Department of the Singapore Police Force. 2 Mr Chai was charged under section 330(1)(a) of the Securities and Futures Act (SFA) The offences under section 330
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- Consultations
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- A consultation paper on new Notices to payment services providers on the prevention of money laundering and countering the financing of terrorism, which applies to 3 classes of licensees – Money-Changing licence, Standard Payment Institution licence, and Major Payment Institution licence. Response VIEW DOCUMENT Response to feedback received on the proposed Payment Services AML/CFT Notices_ (797.7 KB) Annex A-B to the Response to Feedback Received on the PS Act AML/CFT Notices (1.63 MB) Consultation
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- Guidelines
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- Guidelines for financial advisers to safeguard the interest of clients when distributing life policies online without the provision of advice. These guidelines apply to all licensed financial advisers and exempt financial advisers. They set out the safeguards that financial advisers should put in place when distributing life policies online without advice which include: Offer of equivalent Direct Purchase Insurance products (DPI). Provision of key information. Provision of tools and calculators.
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- Singapore, 5 December 2002. The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) today issued revised guidelines for retail hedge funds. The guidelines take into account public comments and feedback received from an earlier consultation that commenced on 13 August 2002. The new guidelines lower the minimum subscription levels for hedge fund-of-funds (FOHF) and capital protected or guaranteed hedge funds. They also require enhanced disclosures in prospectuses and marketing materials of hedge funds on the
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- Letters to Editor
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- Dear Editor, We thank Mr Rajagopalan Krishnamoorthy for his feedback on the dividend restrictions on local banks announced by the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) on 29 July 2020 (“MAS request of banks not fair to retail investors”, 10 August 2020). 2 Mr Krishnamoorthy asked if it was necessary for MAS to intervene in the local banks’ dividend payouts, and if such a move required shareholders’ consent. Dividends are a means through which companies share excess profits with their shareholders
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- Singapore, 8 June 2023... The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) announced today that it will set supervisory expectations to steer financial institutions’ transition planning processes to facilitate credible decarbonisation efforts by their clients . 2. Speaking at the Financing Asia’s Transition (FAST) Conference, Mr Tharman Shanmugaratnam, Senior Minister and Coordinating Minister for Social Policies, and Chairman of MAS, underscored the need for financial supervisors to incentivise financial
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- Guidelines
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- Specifies how counterparty risk requirements should be computed for specified structured warrants. The guidelines are not applicable to capital computations after 3 April 2015 and financial returns after 1 July 2015. These guidelines apply to capital markets services (CMS) licensees: dealing in securities and trading in futures contracts; and which are members of an approved exchange or designated clearing house in respect of capital computations before 3 April 2015 and financial returns before 1