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- Comments by MAS Spokesperson on Market Conditions: "A combination of a dislocation in global money markets and quarter-end funding pressures caused S$ interest rates to firm this morning. To ease market funding pressures, MAS kept a higher level of liquidity in the banking system through its market operations. 3-month S$ Sibor was fixed by the Association of Banks at 2.23% today, up from 1.76% yesterday. Rates have since eased to about 2%. MAS remains in close contact with market participants.
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- Singapore, 8 March 2013…The People’s Bank of China (PBC) and the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) today announced the establishment of a new and enhanced bilateral currency swap arrangement to promote bilateral trade and direct investment for the economic development of the two countries. The new agreement was signed on 7 March 2013 and will replace the old swap arrangement dated 23 July 2010, which is expiring this year. 2 The new bilateral currency swap arrangement reinforces the co-operation
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- Singapore, 8 November 2002. Singapore sees a 54% increase in total treasury revenue amounting to S$8.0 billion in 2001 compared to the S$5.2 billion in 2000. Profit before tax rose 68%, to S$6.7 billion in 2001 from S$4.0 billion in 2000. This is a credible performance in the face of a 19% dip in global forex trading activity last year as reported in the 2001 BIS Triennial Central Bank of Survey of Foreign Exchange and Derivatives Market Activity. As such, Singapore retains its leading global position
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- Singapore, 30 June 2017… The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) announced today that it has launched a Singapore-dollar (SGD) Credit Rating Grant to encourage issuers in the SGD bond market to issue rated bonds. 2. Investors today generally have access to publicly available information such as company financial statements and offering documents when they consider their bond investments. Greater availability of credit ratings in the domestic bond market will help to further improve market
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- Mr Agustin Carstens, General Manager, BIS Mr Fernando Restoy, Chairman, FSI Mr William Coen, Secretary General, BCBS Ms Chuchi Fonacier, Chairman, EMEAP WGBS and Deputy Governor, BSP Distinguished guests, ladies and gentlemen, 1 Good morning. My colleagues and I at the MAS are pleased to host this 13th Asia-Pacific High Level Meeting on Banking Supervision. It is also my honour to be able to offer some remarks to precede the interesting panel sessions over the next two days. Basel III reforms 2
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- Singapore, 12 June 2023… The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) said today that the day-to-day operations of the Singapore entities of UBS Group AG (UBS) and Credit Suisse Group AG (CS) will not be interrupted by the legal completion of the takeover. 2. UBS and CS will continue to operate in Singapore under separate licences. UBS and CS have put in place governance structures to monitor and facilitate the orderly integration of the Singapore operations. Their primary activities in Singapore remain
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- Date: 17 Jan 2000 Mr Speaker, Sir, I beg to move, "That the Bill be now read a Second time." 1 In moving the Second Reading of the Securities Industry (Amendment) Bill, I explained the importance that investors place on sound regulations, and on the proper enforcement of those regulations. I also described how the lack of investor confidence would have a detrimental effect on our financial markets, and consequently the real economy. Although the focus there was on the cash market, the same considerations
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- 1 Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. 2 It is my pleasure to join you at this special occasion to officially launch the educational alliance between the Chartered Insurance Institute and the Singapore College of Insurance. Development of Singapore as an IFC 3 Singapore has done well to establish itself as an international financial centre. We now have more than 900 banks, insurance companies, securities dealers and fund managers operating in Singapore. Most of them are institutions of
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- 1 Minister of State , Ministry of Culture, Community and Youth and Ministry of Trade and Industry, Mr Alvin Tan, on behalf of Senior Minister and Minister-in-charge of the Monetary Authority of Singapore (“MAS”), Mr Tharman Shanmugaratnam, today moved the Business Trusts (Amendment) Bill 2022 (“BT(A) Bill”) for First Reading in Parliament. BACKGROUND 2 The business trust (“BT”) regime was developed in 2004 to establish a new type of business structure for business enterprises. It was envisaged that
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- Consultation Paper Annex 1 Terms of Reference 142; To establish the framework for conducting an investigation into the valuation of general insurance policy liabilities as required under the proposed enabling provison in Section 37 of the Insurance Act, Chapter To draft guidance notes for actuaries conducting an investigation into the valuation of general insurance policy liabilities as required under section 37 of the Insurance Act, Chapter