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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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- MAS sets out in this consultation paper the proposed amendments to limits currently imposed on each personal payment account that contains e money (“e-wallet”) issued by Major Payment Institutions. MAS invites comments from interested parties on the proposals set out in the consultation paper. Response VIEW DOCUMENT Response to Consultation on Proposed Amendments to Restrictions on Personal Payment Accounts that Contain E-Money (304.2 KB) Consultation Paper VIEW DOCUMENT Consultation Paper on Proposed
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- Requirements for merchant banks when granting an unsecured non-card credit facility to an individual. This notice applies to all merchant banks in Singapore. It sets out the requirements a merchant bank has to comply with when granting an unsecured non-card credit facility to an individual. See explainers: Ongoing Credit Checks and Requirements Credit Limit Management Measure Granting Non-Card Unsecured Credit Facilities Amendment Notes 01 July 2021 MAS Notice 1109 dated 28 June 2021 takes effect
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- Singapore, 17 April, 2017... The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) and the United Nations Capital Development Fund (UNCDF) have formed a strategic partnership under the ongoing UNCDF’s SHIFT (Shaping Inclusive Finance Transformations) programme to facilitate the development and access to digital financial services in the ASEAN region. To accelerate financial access and usage, MAS and UNCDF SHIFT will explore opportunities to work on digitisation of low-tier financial institutions (Financial Cooperatives
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- QUESTION NO 1485 NOTICE PAPER 865 OF 2017 FOR WRITTEN ANSWER Date: For Parliament Sitting on 2 October 2017 Name and Constituency of Member of Parliament Assoc Prof Daniel Goh Pei Siong, NCMP Question: To ask the Prime Minister whether the Ministry will regulate transaction fees and platform rental fees charged by cashless e-payment platform providers by mandating caps on such fees so as to accelerate the widespread adoption of e-payment by small and medium enterprises and consumers. Answer by Mr
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- Mr Jiang Jianqing, ICBC Chairman, Mr Dai Bing, distinguished guests, ladies and gentlemen, good morning. 1 I am happy to join you at this morning’s ceremony inaugurating the Industrial & Commercial Bank of China as the Renminbi clearing bank in Singapore. 2 Today’s event marks a key milestone in the financial cooperation between China and Singapore. It is the fruit of a strong and substantive collaboration between the Monetary Authority of Singapore and the People’s Bank of China. MAS extended
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- On 22 February 2019, the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), of which Singapore is a member, issued an updated Public Statement that highlights the strategic deficiencies in the anti-money laundering/combating the financing of terrorism (AML/CFT) regimes of the following jurisdictions: The FATF remains concerned by the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK)’s failure to address the significant deficiencies in its AML/CFT regime and the serious threats they pose to the integrity of the international
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- "Building a Brighter Future for Asia Together" 1 Welcome to Singapore. I thank Nomura for holding its fourth Asia Equity Forum here, and for bringing together this diverse group of companies, financial institutions and investors. I hope that this forum will serve as a platform for forging new business relationships and conceiving new growth opportunities. 2 Last week, the World Economic Forum on East Asia hosted more than 300 leaders from business, politics, government, civil society and
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- Introduction Ladies and Gentlemen, 1 Good afternoon. 2 I welcome the International Institute for Finance (IIF) for holding its Asia Regional Economic Forum in Singapore. It is good to see such a diverse group gathered here for this Forum. An unprecedented crisis 3 The most commonly used adjective to describe the current financial crisis is "unprecedented". Indeed, many aspects have been exceptional – the speed at which events unfolded and triggered a series of domino effects; the scale of
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- By Viral Acharya, Rahul Chauhan, Raghuram Rajan and Sascha Steffen This study was published as Special Feature C in the October 2022 Macroeconomic Review. Special Features 103 Special Feature C Liquidity Dependence Viral Acharya, Rahul Chauhan, Raghuram Rajan and Sascha Steffen1 At the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas Citys Jackson Hole Economic Symposium in late August 2022, the theme of the second day was Reassessing Constraints on Policy. Viral Acharya presented his
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- This study was published as Special Feature A in the April 2011 Macroeconomic Review. 68 Macroeconomic Review, April 2011 Special Feature A What Drives Private Machinery Investment in Singapore? Introduction Gross capital formation occupies a central role in many economic development. A high share of productive is often held to be a investment prerequisite for economic growth in developing countries. Moreover, the importance of capital formation does