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- FATF Statement
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- On 19 February 2016, the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), of which Singapore is a member, issued an updated Public Statement that highlighted the strategic deficiencies in the anti-money laundering/combating the financing of terrorism (AML/CFT) regimes:- Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) and Iran which have not shown sufficient commitment to address their serious AML/CFT deficiencies. They are subject to a FATF call on its members and other jurisdictions to apply counter-measures. Myanmar
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- Bond and Bills
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- 5 NOVEMBER 2021 2022 SINGAPORE GOVERNMENT SECURITIES (SGS) ISSUANCE CALENDAR 2022 SGS Issuance Calendar (https://www.mas.gov.sg/bonds-and-bills/auctions-and-issuance-calendar). The 2022 SGS issuance calendar has been published on the MAS website Over the past five years, outstanding SGS bonds have grown steadily at an average 2 rate of around 8% per annum. The outstanding amount of SGS bonds as at 1 November 2021 stands at S$149.1 billion. 3 Market conditions
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- Consultations
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- Response VIEW DOCUMENT Response to Feedback Received on Consultation Paper on Draft Deposit Insurance Regulations (132.8 KB) Consultation Paper VIEW DOCUMENT Draft Deposit Insurance Regulations (337.9 KB) RESPONSE TO FEEDBACK RECEIVED - CONSULTATION ON DRAFT DEPOSIT INSURANCE REGULATIONS O(cid:81) 27 O(cid:70)(cid:87)(cid:82)(cid:69)(cid:72)(cid:85) 2005, MAS (cid:85)(cid:72)(cid:79)(cid:72)(cid:68)(cid:86)(cid:72)(cid:71) (cid:68) (cid:70)(cid:82)(cid:81)(cid:86)(cid:88)(cid:79)(cid:87
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- Consultations
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- Response VIEW DOCUMENT Response to Feedback Received on Related Party Transaction Requirements for Banks (905.5 KB) Annex C (Supplement) - Feedback Received for Consultation on Related Party Transaction Requirements for Banks (3.5 MB) Consultation Paper VIEW DOCUMENT Consultation Paper on Related Party Transaction Requirements for Banks 2016 (626.9 KB) RESPONSE TO FEEDBACK RECEIVED November 2016 Response to Feedback Received Related Party Transaction Requirements for Banks Monetary
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- Media Releases
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- Singapore, 30 August 2002. The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) today issued a consultation paper on its proposal to implement a regulatory framework for health insurance business. 2 Health insurance, a key component in the healthcare financing business, is likely to play a more important role in the future. Financing of healthcare services has become a critical national issue in Singapore with its rapidly ageing population and rising expectations and demand for better and more sophisticated
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- Media Releases
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- Singapore, 14 Oct 2003...Over the last few months, MAS has received complaints from the public about life insurance policies with Critical Year features. In response, MAS has encouraged companies that had issued such policies to deal fairly with the complaints, and has been monitoring their actions to address the concerns of affected policyholders. One company which sold a large number of Critical Year policies was the Singapore branch of American International Assurance (AIA). 2 In July, AIA
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- Media Releases
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- Singapore, 24 February 2003...The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) today issued a consultation paper on a set of proposed guidelines and regulations to enhance the existing corporate governance framework for locally incorporated banks and direct insurers. The paper consists of two parts: (i) a set of guidelines on the principles of corporate governance and disclosure, and (ii) regulations on corporate governance. 2 The proposed guidelines are built upon the Code of Corporate Governance, issued
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- Media Releases
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- The editor Lianhe Zaobao Dear Sir, We refer to your article "Can EC-Asia's incident be avoided?" [LHZB 5 June 2003] . Under the disclosure-based regime under the Securities and Futures Act (SFA), it is the responsibility of issuers and their advisers to ensure that prospectuses contain adequate and accurate information for investors. MAS' review of prospectuses cannot substitute for the issuer's own due diligence. This is because the regulator cannot be privy to all the information that the issuer
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- Enforcement Actions
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- Singapore, 5 July 2021… The Monetary Authority of Singapore has issued four-year prohibition orders (POs) against Ms Suzannah Khoo Lee Sun, following her conviction in the State Courts for an offence involving dishonesty, namely misappropriation of monies from one of her clients. 2 Under the POs, which will take effect from 2 July 2021, Ms Khoo is prohibited from providing any financial advisory services, taking part in the management, acting as a director, or becoming a substantial shareholder
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- Letters to Editor
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- Dear Sir, We refer to "Disclose CEO's and directors' actual pay, not bands" (BT, 3 April 2008). Prof Mak Yuen Teen is right to say that the Code of Corporate Governance recommends bands, but does not stop companies from going beyond that to disclose actual pay. Companies that want to differentiate themselves to investors do go beyond the Code and provide more detailed disclosures. More importantly, companies should explain to their shareholders their overall framework, policies and procedures