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- Meeting the Challenges to Finance Asia's Infrastructure Good morning, ladies and gentlemen, 1 It is my honour to speak to such a distinguished group of infrastructure market practitioners from all across Asia and beyond. I would like to take this opportunity to thank Terrapinn and all the sponsors for putting together this conference for participants to gain insights into the infrastructure opportunities and challenges in Asia. To our overseas guests, a very warm welcome to Singapore. INFRASTRUCTURE
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- Issues Raised in Parliament ANSWER TO PARLIAMENTARY QUESTION ON: Status of Clob shares held by Singaporeans For Parliament Sitting on 06 May 1999 Question: Q To ask the Deputy Prime Minister whether he would expect to see the equivalent volume of $229 billion worth of Malaysian equities traded on Clob International quoted in a Malaysian White Paper to go to the Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange now that there is no Clob International and whether he would expect to see greater liquidity for Singapore equities
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- Requirements for financial advisers on anti-money laundering (AML) and countering the financing of terrorism (CFT). Financial institutions operating in Singapore are required to put in place robust controls to detect and deter the flow of illicit funds through Singapore's financial system. Such controls include the need for financial institutions to identify and know their customers (including beneficial owners), to conduct regular account reviews, and to monitor and report any suspicious transaction
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- Requirements and guiding principles for insurers on the management of outward reinsurance arrangements. This notice applies to all licensed insurers, except for paragraph 5, which does not apply to reinsurers and captive insurers. It sets out: Mandatory requirements for direct insurers to submit annual returns pertaining to their outward reinsurance arrangements and exposures to their top ten reinsurance counterparts. Guiding principles that relate to the oversight of the reinsurance management process
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- Proposal for REITs to hold Annual General Meetings Response VIEW DOCUMENT Response to Feedback: Proposed Mandatory AGM Requirement for REITs (20.1 KB) Consultation Paper VIEW DOCUMENT Proposed Mandatory AGM Requirement for REITs (116.5 KB) RESPONSE TO FEEDBACK RECEIVED MANDATORY AGM REQUIREMENT FOR REITS On 26 May 2009, MAS issued a consultation paper inviting comments on a proposal to mandate that Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs) hold annual general meetings (AGMs). The
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- Guidelines
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- Guidelines for variable capital companies on Notice VCC-N01 for the prevention of money laundering and countering the financing of terrorism Pursuant to the Variable Capital Companies Act (Act 44 of 2018) (“VCC Act”) and Notice VCC-N01 on Prevention of Money Laundering and Countering the Financing of Terrorism - Variable Capital Companies (“Notice VCC-N01”), MAS is introducing Guidelines to Notice VCC-N01 (“the Guidelines”). The Guidelines set out MAS’ supervisory expectations and addresses the relationship
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- Confidential and Without Prejudice Response to the Public Consultation for Approaches to Managing Personal Data in the Digital Economy (Submitted on 21 Sep 2017) 1. Questions 1 and 2 of consultation paper I am supportive of notification of purpose as a basis for collecting, using and disclosing personal data without consent. However, this should be subject to commercially appropriate forms/ channels of notification, and a risk-calibrated risk impact assessment by organisations
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- Media Releases
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- Singapore, 25 May 2006...The Monetary Authority of Singapore and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) jointly hosted a second high-level seminar on Asian regional financial integration. Delegates from 13 Asian economies attended the seminar which brought together Finance Ministers, Central Bank Governors and senior officials from the region as well as from the IMF and the Asian Development Bank (ADB). 2 Participants recognised that the process of financial integration and monetary cooperation
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- Joint Press Release by Ministry of National Development, Ministry of Finance, Ministry of Law and Monetary Authority of Singapore 1 Mr Mah Bow Tan, the Minister for National Development, announced today that the Government would take the following measures to ensure a stable and sustainable property market: a) Reinstatement of the Confirmed List for the 1st Half 2010 Government Land Sales (GLS) Programme. b) Removal of the Interest Absorption Scheme (IAS) and Interest-Only Housing Loans (IOL),
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- This circular modifies the single entity limit in the Code on Collective Investment Schemes (“ Code ”) in relation to country-specific government bond funds. In particular, the minimum credit rating requirement under Paragraph 2.6(a) of Appendix 1 of the Code is lowered to investment-grade, i.e., BBB by Fitch , Baa by Moody’s or BBB by Standard and Poor’s (including such sub-categories or gradations therein), provided certain conditions are met. More details can be found in the circular. Circular