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- 14 April 2010 INTRODUCTION 1 MAS has maintained a zero percent appreciation path for the S$NEER policy band since October 2008. The policy band was re-centred downwards in April last year, and kept at that level during the last policy announcement in October. This policy stance was assessed to be appropriate, given continuing weakness and uncertainties in global and domestic economic prospects. Chart 1 S$ Nominal Effective Exchange Rate (S$NEER) 2 Over the past six months, the S$NEER (Chart
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- Mr Pierre Buhler, French Ambassador to Singapore Mr Steve Forbes, President & CEO of Forbes Mr Philippe Collas, CEO of Global Investment Management Services, SG Mr Daniel Truchi, Global CEO of SG Private Banking Mr Pierre Baer, CEO of SG Private Banking (Singapore) Distinguished Guests, 1 It brings me great pleasure to join you here at the opening ceremony of the new office for SG Private Banking. SG’s presence in Asia and Singapore 2 SG Private Banking has had a long history of over one hundred
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- INTRODUCTION 1 Since April 2004, MAS has maintained the policy of a modest and gradual appreciation of the Singapore dollar nominal effective exchange rate (S$NEER) policy band. In October 2007, the policy was tightened through a slight increase in the slope of the band. The gradual appreciation of the S$ exchange rate over the past few years has helped to mitigate inflationary pressures. Chart 1 Nominal Effective Exchange Rate (S$NEER) 2 Since the last policy review, the S$NEER has fluctuated
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- By Ricardo J Caballero and Alp Simsek This study was published as Special Feature C in the April 2023 Macroeconomic Review. Special Features 111 Special Feature C Risk-Centric Monetary Policy Ricardo J Caballero and Alp Simsek1 1 Introduction "So, of course, monetary policy does, famously, work with long and variable lags. The way I think of it is, our policy decisions affect financial conditions immediately. In fact, financial conditions have usually been affected well before we actually
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- Singapore, 6 April 2020...The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) announced today the appointment of Ms Celine Sia as Assistant Managing Director (Economics & Knowledge Management). The appointment takes effect on 6 April 2020. 2 Ms Sia will oversee the Economic Analysis Department, Economic Surveillance & Forecasting Department, and a newly-formed Enterprise Knowledge Department tasked with strengthening knowledge and data management in MAS. These responsibilities come under the Economic Policy
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- Achieving Good Regulatory Outcomes – The Way Forward 1 Good morning. My colleagues and I at the Monetary Authority of Singapore are delighted to welcome you to Singapore, and to the 16th International Conference of Banking Supervisors (ICBS). We are honoured to join the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (BCBS) as organisers of the conference. Looking Back on the Crisis 2 When we last met in Brussels in September 2008, the collapse of Lehman Brothers triggered a tail-spin in the global
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- This is a quarterly brief which aims to provide a quick pictorial summary of recent economic developments in the Singapore economy. pan Recent Economic Developments in Singapore 4 Dec 2013 Real Sector Real GDP Growth, y-o-y % Real GDP Growth, q-o-q saar % Index of Industrial Production, y-o-y % Non-oil Domestic Exports, y-o-y % Labour Market and Prices Unemployment Rate, sa, % (Average) CPI Inflation, y-o-y % Wage Growth, y-o-y % 2012 2013 Q3
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- 14 October 2010 INTRODUCTION 1 In April this year, MAS re-centred the exchange rate policy band at the prevailing level of the S$NEER, and shifted the policy band from that of a zero percent appreciation path to one of modest and gradual appreciation. This policy decision took into account the strong rebound of the Singapore economy from the downturn and incipient inflationary pressures emanating from domestic and external sources. Chart 1 S$ Nominal Effective Exchange Rate (S$NEER) 2 Since
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- Singapore, 26 June 2023…The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) announced today the release of an open-source toolkit to enable the responsible use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the financial industry. 2 The Veritas Toolkit version 2.0 Veritas Toolkit version 2.0 is available at https://github.com/veritas-toolkit/ , developed by an MAS-led consortium of 31 industry players, will help financial institutions (FIs) carry out the assessment methodologies for the Fairness, Ethics, Accountability
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- This is a quarterly brief which aims to provide a quick pictorial summary of recent economic developments in the Singapore economy. pan Recent Economic Developments in Singapore 7 March 2013 Real Sector Real GDP Growth, y-o-y % Real GDP Growth, q-o-q saar % Index of Industrial Production, y-o-y % Non-oil Domestic Exports, y-o-y % Labour Market and Prices Unemployment Rate, sa, % (Average) CPI Inflation, y-o-y % Wage Growth, y-o-y % Q1 Q2