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MAS to push ahead with bond issue

Despite concerns from some investors that the market is saturated,the Monetary Authority of Singapore announced that it intends to go ahead with plans to issue a new 15-year government bond, reports ChannelNewsAsia.

Banking reform in Singapore

Singapore's deputy prime minister and finance minister Lee Hsien Loong talked about banking sector reform, capital raising and foreign competition in an interview with The Banker magazine published 10 April.

Malaysia bank mergers seen next year

SINGAPORE - The Malaysian banking sector is due for a new round of consolidation ahead of further liberalisation in 2007 -- and mergers, especially among the smaller existing banks, could start toward the end of next year, analysts say.

MAS Guidelines on Sound Risk Management Practice

REPORT - On 30 October the Monetary Authority of Singapore published its Guidelines on Sound Risk Management Practices. This set of guidelines aims to provide banks, merchant banks, finance companies and insurance companies (referred to collectively as …

MAS Press Release

PRESS RELEASE - The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) announced that it would formalise guidelines governing industry and public consultation and implementation of MAS-administered legislation, 22 October.

Speech by Yeo Lian Sim, MAS, 19 Sep

SPEECH - In the speech titled 'Hedge Funds: A Mainstream Alternative' Sim said the MAS will maintain its calibrated approach towards the regulation of hedge funds and hedge fund managers. She said it will also continue to build on the three pillars of…

Speech by Shane Tregillis, MAS, 4 Sep

SPEECH - In the speech titled 'A Newfound Importance Of Non-Bank FIs in Asia' Tregillis said that to develop the regulation of capital markets in Singapore the first thing needed is to update the content of regulation so that it responds to changes in…

Speech by Koh Yong Guan, MD MAS, 2 Aug

SPEECH - In the speech Koh Yong Guan said the Board of Commissioners of Currency, Singapore (BCCS) will be merging with MAS. We are targeting to complete the merger exercise by October 2002. The merger of the two institutions is being undertaken with the…

Speech by Robert E. Rubin, MAS, 25 Jul

SPEECH - In the MAS Lecture Rubin said that the Japanese economy could experience an upturn if global conditions are reasonable but that the "enormously complicated" structural and fiscal problems Japan faces have in large measure not been effectively…

Speech by 2nd Minister for Finance, MAS, 23 Jul

SPEECH - In the speech the Minister for Health and Second Minister for Finance said the banking industry in Singapore has introduced new technologies to improve this cheque clearing process. He gives an example of this is the magnetic-ink character…

MAS issues new risk-based capital requirements

SINGAPORE - With effect from 1 October 2002, holders of Capital Markets Services (CMS) licences will be subject to new risk-based capital requirements under a subsidiary legislation of the Securities and Futures Act 2001.

Young blood for MAS' senior ranks

SINGAPORE - Nine officers at the Monetary Authority of Singapore, whose average age is 40, will move into key positions as part of organisational revamp, the Singapore Straits Times reported on Tuesday.

Asia central banks could be gold buyers

SINGAPORE - Asia's reserve-rich central banks are potential buyers of gold to diversify their reserve assets, even as European central banks cut their holdings, a senior official of the World Gold Council said on Monday.

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