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    • Good morning and welcome to the inaugural Transition Finance towards Net Zero conference. COP27 will be held in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt, in a little over a month. We are privileged to have with us Dr Rania Al-Mahsat, Egypt’s Minister for International Cooperation, who will set out the Egyptian COP27 Presidency’s priorities to turn climate ambition into climate action. Why are we gathered here?  Let me briefly lay out the problem statements and then set out how this conference hopes to contribute in
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    •  Luncheon Address by DPM Lee at the International Monetary Conference Date: 04 Jun 2001 Mr Sandy Warner President, IMC Ladies and Gentlemen: Introduction 1   I welcome all the delegates to this first IMC of the new century. Please allow me to share with you a Singapore perspective on financial centres as they are and as we expect them to be in the years ahead. 2   In the last few decades the pattern of international financial activity has undergone major changes. Starting with a high concentration
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    • This study was published as Special Feature B in the April 2013 Macroeconomic Review. Special Features 83 Special Feature B The Competitive Saving Motive: Concept, Evidence, and Implications by Shang-Jin Wei1 Introduction The competitive saving motive refers to saving for the purpose of raising ones relative status in the competition for dating and marriage partners. Unlike the standard life-cycle and precautionary motives for savings, the competitive saving motive
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    • Guidelines for approved trustees on Notice SFA 13-N01 on the prevention of money laundering and countering the financing of terrorism. These guidelines provide guidance to approved trustees on the requirements in Notice SFA 13-N01 to the Approved Trustees on Prevention of Money Laundering and Countering the Financing of Terrorism . They should be read in conjunction with the notice. 24 Apr 2015 Previous version dated 24 April 2015 (277.1 KB) [Cancelled] 29 Dec 2006 Previous version dated 29 Dec 2006
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    •  Speech by DPM Lee Hsien Loong at the Financial Sector Review Group (FSRG) Appreciation Dinner, Shangri-La Hotel Date: 27 Nov 1998 Introduction 1   When the Financial Sector Review Group (FSRG) first started work a little over a year ago, we decided that the fastest way to get started was to tap the expertise and knowledge in the private sector. A Finance and Banking Competitiveness Sub-Committee, chaired by Mr Peter Seah, under Mr Lee Yock Suan's Committee on Singapore's Competitiveness, was already
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    •  14 July 2005, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia "Towards an Integrated ASEAN Capital Market" 1   I would like to first thank Bank Negara Malaysia and the European Commission for the invitation to speak at this Euro Conference. 2   It is always daunting to speak after two esteemed panellist members but allow me to pick up from Mr Camacho's remarks and share some additional thoughts on the efforts toward an integrated ASEAN capital market. Singapore is supportive of regional capital market developments and
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    • The ACIP best practice papers highlight the “red flag” customer behaviours or transaction patterns that financial institutions can look out for to detect illicit financial activities. Find out more about the best practices which ACIP has recommended as best practices for financial institutions to guard against trade-based money laundering(TBML). d AML/CFT INDUSTRY PARTNERSHIP Best Practices for Countering Trade Based Money Laundering May 2018 -------- Best Practices on Trade
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    •  Keynote Address by DPM Lee Hsien Loong, Chairman MAS, at MAS 30th Anniversary Conference Date: 20 July 2001 INTRODUCTION 1   It is a great pleasure for me to welcome you to MAS' 30th Anniversary Conference. We are honoured to have with us so many distinguished central bankers, financial supervisors, market participants and economists. 2   A new economic and financial landscape is emerging. Financial markets are becoming globalised; cross-border capital flows are larger and faster; financial institutions
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    • This study was published as Special Feature C in the April 2016 Macroeconomic Review. Special Features 97 Special Feature C Corporate Governance And The Finance Sector: An Asian Perspective by Randall Morck and Bernard Yeung1 Introduction The hallmark of a modern economy is a tightly focused specialisation of both people and that dramatically boosts productivity. firms Specialisation requires efficient markets because specialised people and firms, by definition