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Fintech / Regtech
MAS Orders Wirecard Entities to Cease Singapore Payment Services
By Editors | 30/09/2020
Wirecard has informed MAS that it is unable to continue providing payment processing services to a significant number of merchants.
Securities / Derivatives
Goldman to Build Out FX Trading Infrastructure in Singapore
By Editors | 30/09/2020
Goldman expects its FX pricing engine in Singapore to be live in the first quarter of 2021 across deliverable and non-deliverable currencies.
Securities / Derivatives
Singapore Extends Measures on Electronic Offer Documents
By Editors | 29/09/2020
Listed issuers and parties involved in rights issues and takeover or merger transactions can electronically disseminate offer documents for 9 more months.
MAS in Talks with Banks on Extending Relief for Borrowers
By Editors | 29/09/2020
MAS may extend relief measures announced in March which allowed principal and interest payments on loans to be postponed until year-end.
Fintech / Regtech
HKMA Selects ConsenSys to Lead Next Phase of CBDC Project
By Editors | 28/09/2020
Project Inthanon-LionRock studied the application of a CBDC for cross-border payments. ConsenSys will lead implementation of the project’s next phase.
Capital / Liquidity
Too Big to Fail: Markets Abhor a Vacuum
By Jamie Lloyd Evans | 24/09/2020
Some characteristics of the TBTF challenge are specific to Asia, but these may be intractable from ‘winner-takes-all’ capitalism and national interests, writes industry veteran Jamie Lloyd Evans.
AML / KYC
MAS ‘Closely Studying’ Singapore Mentions in FinCEN Files
By Editors | 21/09/2020
The SARs contained in the FinCEN Files flagged 1,781 transactions that flowed through Singapore as potentially suspicious.
Securities / Derivatives
Barclays to Build Out FX Trading Infrastructure in Singapore
By Editors | 19/09/2020
Barclays will launch an FX trading and pricing engine in Singapore by mid-2021, adding to existing platforms in New York, London and Tokyo.
Securities / Derivatives
SGX to List World’s Largest Chinese Pure Government Bond ETF
By Editors | 17/09/2020
CSOP Asset Management’s inaugural ETF on SGX will track the performance of fixed-rate government bonds issued in China as measured by a FTSE Russell index.
ESG / Sustainability
Singapore Fund Industry to Collaborate to Address Skills Gap
By Sanday Chongo Kabange | 16/09/2020
The first phase of the initiative will equip asset management trainees with foundation skills as well as future-ready skills in fintech, impact investing and ESG.
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