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A business trust is a business enterprise structured as a trust. A business trust (“BT”) is a business enterprise structured as a trust....
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- Introduction 1 Good morning ladies and gentlemen. To all our foreign guests, a very warm welcome to Singapore. It gives me great pleasure to be here today at the International Swaps & Derivatives Association's first Annual General Meeting to be held in Singapore. I last had the privilege to address you all at the inauguration of ISDA's Asia-Pacific office here in Singapore in 2000. Since then, I have been told that ISDA has more than doubled their Asian membership base to 62 members. Let me
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- Mr Olivier Guersent, Director General for Financial Stability, Financial Services and Capital Markets Union (European Commission) Dr Michael Pulch, EU Ambassador to Singapore, Mr Ashley Alder, Chair of the IOSCO Board and Chief Executive of Hong Kong SFC, Mr Ryozo Himino, APRC Chairman and Vice-Minister of International Affairs, Japan FSA, Mr Paul Andrews, IOSCO Secretary General, Distinguished guests, ladies and gentlemen, On behalf of all my colleagues at the MAS, let me extend a warm welcome to
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- 1 The Minister for Education (Higher Education and Skills) and Second Minister for Defence, Mr Ong Ye Kung, on behalf of Mr Tharman Shanmugaratnam, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister in charge of the Monetary Authority of Singapore (“MAS”), today moved the Securities and Futures (Amendment) Bill 2016 (“Bill”) for First Reading in Parliament. BACKGROUND 2 The MAS is introducing legislative amendments to the Securities and Futures Act (Cap. 289) (“SFA”) to implement policy proposals aimed at ensuring
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- Singapore, 30 August 2021 … The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) announced today the 15 finalists for the global competition to develop retail Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) solutions (Global CBDC Challenge). The finalists, comprising financial institutions, FinTechs and technology solution providers, will progress to the Acceleration Phase of the Global CBDC Challenge, before they pitch their solutions to a panel of judges and an international audience at this year’s Singapore FinTech
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- Singapore, 10 September 2018… The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) has finalised the features of the new corporate structure for investment funds, the Variable Capital Company (VCC) Formerly known as the Singapore Variable Capital Company or S-VACC. . This follows from the public consultation in March 2017. The introduction of the VCC structure will position Singapore to become a key fund domiciliation hub, and strengthen Singapore’s position as a full-service international fund management centre
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- Virtual, 18 September 2020 I. Introduction 1. We, the Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors of ASEAN, China, Japan and Korea (ASEAN+3), convened our 23rd meeting under the co-chairmanship of H.E. Dinh Tien Dung, Minister of Finance of the Socialist Republic of Viet Nam, H.E. Le Minh Hung, Governor of the State Bank of Viet Nam, H.E. Aso Taro, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance of Japan and H.E. Kuroda Haruhiko, Governor of the Bank of Japan. The meeting was held in virtual
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- Singapore, 30 August 2021 … The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) announced today the 15 finalists for the global competition to develop retail Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) solutions (Global CBDC Challenge). The finalists, comprising financial institutions, FinTechs and technology solution providers, will progress to the Acceleration Phase of the Global CBDC Challenge, before they pitch their solutions to a panel of judges and an international audience at this year’s Singapore FinTech
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- Dr Wang Kai Yuen, MP for Bukit Timah Constituency, Dr Ong Chit Chung, MP for Jurong GRC, Dr Ho Kah Leong, Former MP, Distinguished Guests, Grassroot Leaders, Donors and Supporters, Residents A warm welcome to everyone to Taman Jurong's celebrations of Singapore 40th National Day and the Official Opening of Taman Jurong Community Club (CC). Rejevunation of Taman Jurong 2 Our new CC has been a labour of love. It is the result of a few years of hard work, and a passion to serve our residents, on
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- Proposed Address: Distinguished guests, Ladies and gentlemen, Good morning. 1 I am pleased to have this opportunity to deliver the opening address at the inaugural Seminar on Equity Derivatives and Structured Products. I would like to commend the Singapore Investment Banking Association (SIBA) for their effort in organising today's event and in bringing together this large group of institutional investors, corporates and statutory boards to touch on a topic relatively new to most of us. Realising
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- 1 Good Morning. I'm very happy to be here today at the Public Lender and Insurer Infrastructure Finance Summit 2006. I would like to congratulate the organizers - IE Singapore, INTOBA and Morrison and Foerster, for putting together a very interesting program and for drawing such a good response. 2 Since the crisis in 1998, the economies of Asia (ex-Japan) have sustained an average growth rate of 6.3% per annum, significantly faster than the global growth rate of 3.9%. While China and India