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- MAS Staff Paper No. 56, November 2019 - By Chioh Wenn Sheng, Chua Bing Kiat, Andrew Ang, Fan Jia Rong and Brandon Sim ABSTRACT The growth of dark trading in equities has driven academic research and attracted attention from regulators concerned about its effects on market quality. In this paper, we analyse and simulate the effects of dark trading on the market quality and efficiency of Singapore’s equity market. While our results generally support the conventional criticisms of dark trading, we find
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- Introduction - The Changing Environment Good morning, everyone. My topic this morning is prudential supervision in a changing and riskier environment. But before I talk about prudential supervision, I want to talk a little more broadly about the environment that we are operating in and the challenges that this environment poses for all of us. The external environment has been changing and has become an increasing source of attention for all of us in the financial sector. We are more conscious
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- Keynote Address by Mr Koh Yong Guan, Managing Director, at the MAS Capital Markets Seminar 2002 Date: 2 May 2002 MAS Capital Markets Seminar Ladies and Gentlemen Good morning and a warm welcome to the MAS Capital Markets Seminar. For participants from abroad, I wish you a pleasant and rewarding time in Singapore. 2 We have chosen 'Evolving Regulatory Approaches' as the theme to underscore the importance for regulators to keep pace with developments in the global capital markets. 3 Advances in
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- Eva Szalay, Editor, FX Week, Ladies and gentlemen, good morning. Thank you for inviting me to join you at the 13th FX Week Asia Conference. I am very happy to join you today. The foreign exchange or FX market – which all of you are participants in – is the largest and most liquid of financial markets globally. It has grown remarkably over the past few decades. Between 1995 and 2016, a 21-year period, global FX turnover rose from US$1.2 trillion to US$5.1 trillion per day, according to the BIS Triennial
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- Singapore, 3 September 2005... The Monetary Authority of Singapore and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) jointly hosted a high-level seminar on Asian regional financial integration. Delegates from 14 Asian economies attended the seminar. 2 The seminar brought together the broadest grouping of finance officials from Asia to discuss the opportunities and challenges of Asian financial integration as well as avenues to enhance regional surveillance and monetary cooperation. Delegates included
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- Singapore, 31 January 2018…The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) and the Institute of Banking and Finance (IBF) today announced that IBF will expand its mandate to provide career advisory and job placement services for the financial sector. IBF will set up a dedicated Career Centre providing advisory services for professionals in the financial industry. The Centre, targeted to be set up by July 2018, will allow IBF to provide a comprehensive suite of services ranging from setting competency standards
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- To : PDPC Dear Sirs, May I, as an individual in my own capacity, submit my comments regarding your Public Consultation on Proposed Data Portability and Data Innovation Provisions. The obligations which Data Portability will impose on ALL organisations seems to be onerous, and looks very likely to impose significant compliance costs on organisations. Further, not only compliance costs need to be incurred for resources for personnel to interpret the new provisions which Data Portability
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- Singapore, 15 July 2016…The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) today published its third consultation paper on proposed revisions to the Risk-Based Capital (RBC) framework for insurers, taking into account feedback from the industry. It will also conduct a second quantitative study to assess the impact of the revised proposals. 2 Since the first consultation in 2012 1 , MAS has been closely engaging relevant stakeholders in its review of the RBC framework to ensure that the framework remains
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- Lord Mayor William Russell Dr Rhian-Mari Thomas Ladies and gentlemen, Good afternoon from Singapore. Asia is key to the world’s transition to net zero. The region accounts for about half of global carbon emissions, and more than half of global energy consumption. The battle against climate change will be won or lost in Asia. Asia’s transition to a lower carbon future will not be easy. About 85% of the energy produced comes from fossil fuels, and demand is likely to rise on the back of continued
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- Singapore, 4 October 2022… The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS), together with knowledge partners McKinsey & Company and Convergence Blended Finance, and supported by the Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero (GFANZ), today hosted the inaugural Transition Finance Towards Net Zero (TFNZ) Conference. The conference provides a platform to galvanise key public and private sector stakeholders to mobilise capital at scale to help economies and corporates decarbonise. 2 The conference focused on