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- Anti-money laundering (AML) and countering the financing of terrorism (CFT) requirements to facilitate the transition of existing stored value facility holders This Notice is a transitional arrangement and is intended to substantially apply the requirements of PSOA-N02 to persons providing account issuance services who are exempted under the Payment Services (Exemption for Specified Period) Regulations 2019 during the transition period. This Notice takes effect on 11 February 2021. Amendment Notes
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- Anti-money laundering (AML) and countering the financing of terrorism (CFT) requirements to facilitate the transition of existing stored value facility holders This Notice is a transitional arrangement and is intended to substantially apply the requirements of PSOA-N02 to persons providing account issuance services who are exempted under the Payment Services (Exemption for Specified Period) Regulations 2019 during the transition period. Amendment Notes There are no amendment notes for this notice
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Reply to Parliamentary Question on Impact of Rapidly Rising US Long-term Interest Rates on Singapore- QUESTION NO 589 NOTICE PAPER 348 OF 2021 FOR WRITTEN ANSWER Date: For Parliament Sitting on 5 April 2021 Name and Constituency of Member of Parliament Mr Desmond Choo, MP, Tampines GRC Question: To ask the Prime Minister (a) what is the impact of rapidly rising US long-term interest rates on Singapore; and (b) how will it affect Singaporean households with exposure to property mortgages. Answer by Mr Tharman Shanmugaratnam, Senior Minister and Minister in charge of MAS: 1. Since the start of
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- Mr Nicholas Hadow, Chairman of IMAS Distinguished guests Ladies and gentlemen 1 Good morning. I am delighted to join you at the IMAS 17th Annual Conference. 2 The theme for this year’s conference – Into the Future – is apt in light of the fluctuating sentiments over the direction of the global economy and financial markets. Caught up in the short-term ups and downs, it is easy to lose sight of the bigger picture and longer term trends. 3 The annual IMAS conference therefore provides an invaluable
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- Project Dunbar proved that financial institutions could use CBDCs issued by participating central banks to transact directly with each other on a shared platform. This has the potential to reduce reliance on intermediaries and, correspondingly, the costs and time taken to process cross-border transactions. The project identified three critical questions: which entities should be allowed to hold and transact with CBDCs issued on the platform? How could the flow of cross-border payments be simplified
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- Proposals to facilitate crowdfunding which involves the offer of securities to accredited and institutional investors. Response VIEW DOCUMENT Response to Feedback: Facilitating Securities-based Crowdfunding (379.7 KB) Annex B - Guidelines on Advertising Restrictions (125.6 KB) Annex C - Extract of the Guidelines on Personal Offers made pursuant to the Exemption for Small Offers (50.8 KB) Annex D - Risk Disclosure Statement & Acknowledgement (293.5 KB) FAQs on Lending-based Crowdfunding (339.8 KB)
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- Your Excellency, Mr Alok Prasad Mr J Y Pillay, Chairman of Singapore Exchange, Distinguished guests, Ladies and gentlemen, good afternoon 1 I am delighted to join you at this ceremony to mark the debut of the iShares MSCI India ETF, the first Indian index-linked exchange traded fund to be launched in the world. 2 The iShares MSCI India Exchange Traded Fund (ETF) will provide retail and institutional investors the opportunity to access the Indian capital markets via an instrument traded on
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- Singapore, 31 January 2012 - ASEAN+3 Macroeconomic Research Office (AMRO) today held its opening ceremony in Singapore. AMRO is the independent macroeconomic surveillance unit of the Chiang Mai Initiative Multilateralisation (CMIM) Agreement, a US$120 billion currency swap arrangement among the Finance Ministries and Central Banks of the ASEAN Member States, China, Japan and Korea (ASEAN+3 countries). AMRO was established in April 2011 and is located in Singapore. The Ministry of Finance,
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- QUESTION NO 2860 NOTICE PAPER 1130 OF 2022 FOR ORAL ANSWER Date: For Parliament Sitting on 9 May 2022 Name and Constituency of Member of Parliament Mr Desmond Choo, MP, Tampines GRC Question: To ask the Prime Minister in light of the tighter monetary policy stance taken by MAS (a) what is the projected impact on our trade exports from the strengthening of the Singapore dollar; (b) how will the Government ensure that the strengthened Singapore dollar does not adversely impact our export competitiveness
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- Response VIEW DOCUMENT Response to Feedback: Proposed Regulations to Allow Businesses Related or Complementary to Core Financial Business (105.3 KB) Consultation Paper VIEW DOCUMENT Proposed Regulations to Allow Businesses Related or Complementary to Core Financial Business (236.8 KB) RESPONSE TO FEEDBACK RECEIVED CONSULTATION ON PROPOSED REGULATIONS TO ALLOW BUSINESSES RELATED OR COMPLEMENTARY TO CORE FINANCIAL BUSINESS Introduction 1 1.1 In March 2010, the Monetary Authority of