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- Answer by Mr Tharman Shanmugaratnam, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister in charge of MAS: 1 The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) expects banks to carry out thorough security threat assessments for all their branches and ensure that they have appropriate measures in place to mitigate security risks
- . 2 Following the recent robbery, MAS and the Singapore Police Force (SPF) have reminded banks to conduct regular threat assessments and to enhance security measures where necessary.
- QUESTION NO 203 NOTICE PAPER 308 OF 2016 FOR WRITTEN ANSWER Date: For Parliament Sitting on 15 August 2016 Name and Constituency of Member of Parliament Ms Sylvia Lim, MP, Aljunied GRC Question: To ask the Prime Minister what measures are being considered by MAS to require banks to upgrade their branch
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- The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) today released two consultation papers on Technology Risk Management (TRM). 2 The first paper is a set of enhanced guidelines on technology risk management and the adoption of sound security practices.
- A workgroup of IT security specialists from the major banks and technology experts provided input to MAS in the drafting stage.
- It also specifies the requirement for financial institutions to implement IT controls to protect customer information from unauthorised access or disclosure. 5 MAS invites interested parties to give their views and comments on the two consultation papers which are available on the MAS website, by 16
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- CONTRACTS The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) today issued the Guidelines on Margin Requirements for Non-Centrally Cleared Over-the-counter (Uncleared) Derivatives Contracts (Guidelines)1.
- MAS issued the Guidelines on Margin Requirements for Non-Centrally Cleared Over-The-Counter Derivatives Contracts on 6 Dec 2016. The Guidelines will take effect on 1 March 2017. Circular No.
- A six-month transition period will apply from the commencement of the Guidelines (i.e. 1 March 2017), during which MAS Covered Entities will be expected to make progress to meet the Guidelines as soon as practicable.
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- MAS's role extends beyond capital market activities and includes banking and insurance supervision.
- MAS is empowered under the SFA to conduct investigations that extend beyond direct market participants.
- CISs are to be approved by the MAS before they are offered to the public. The public is further safeguarded through an industry code of best practice that sets out the investment and operational requirements for such CIS.
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- of Singapore (MAS).
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- The views in this article should not be attributed to MAS, NTU or NUS. Monetary Authority of Singapore Economic Policy Group -------- Special Features 79 First, banks central procyclicality of banks balance sheets (Avdjiev et al., 2018).
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- The MAS FinTech Awards as well as the MAS Global FinTech Hackcelerator form the MAS Global FinTech Innovation Challenge.
- Singapore, 5 November 2020… The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) announced today that 40 solutions to address key challenges have been shortlisted for the MAS FinTech Awards to be presented at this year ’s Singapore FinTech Festival x Singapore Week of Innovation and TeCHnology ( SFF x SWITCH ).
- MAS received 326 submissions this year – a 33% increase from 2019 – from applicants across 55 countries.
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- MAS' Initiatives 10 MAS continues to ensure an environment that is conducive to the growth of financial activities. A key aspect of this is to put in place measures to attract a diverse range of participants in the financial sector.
- The MAS treasury survey also showed that average daily trading volumes for foreign exchange also enjoyed healthy growth, rising 24% from US$96.0 billion in 2002 to US$119.3 billion in 2003.
- According to the the MAS treasury survey, daily trading volumes rose almost 21% from US$139 billion in 2002 to a high of US$168 billion in 2003. This is the largest year-on-year increase over the past four years.
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- Since then, regulators, including the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS), have been contributing to the efforts of the IFSB working groups that are drafting standards for two priority areas: Governance and Solvency Requirements for Takaful Operators.
- On our part, MAS will work with interested and credible training institutions to tie-up with Singapore-based educational institutes and bodies to meet this rising demand.
- MAS will be hosting the next IFSB Summit in May 2009, where central bankers, regulators and industry professionals from all over Asia and the Middle East will discuss "The Future of Islamic Financial Services".
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- FIs do not have to seek MAS’ permission to try new things.
- MAS is working with FIs to leverage on new technologies to share aggregated data to improve market and risk analyses, forecasts and projections.
- Let me give two examples of what MAS is doing together with the industry. One, common standards for payments systems to realise more seamless payments across a range of platforms.
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- Bern, 12 September 2016… The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) and the Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority (FINMA) signed a cooperation agreement to foster greater cooperation on FinTech.
- This initiative was launched at the second Financial Dialogue between the MAS and the State Secretariat for International Finance (SIF) held today.
- cooperation and exchange views on domestic and international financial market developments and policies. 2 The Dialogue was led by Ambassador René Weber, Head of the Markets Division in SIF, with representatives from FINMA and the Swiss National Bank, and Jacqueline Loh, Deputy Managing Director of MAS