Hong Kong has priced the first ever 30-year green bond by an Asian government and the longest tenor bond in its history.
January 28, 2021MAS will defray the costs associated with engaging independent sustainability assessment and advisory service providers for green and sustainability-linked loans.
November 25, 2020The SGFC is Singapore's first research institute dedicated to green finance research and talent development and is support by MAS and nine partner financial institutions.
October 14, 2020DBS, BNP Paribas, Citibank, Deutsche Bank and StanChart have partnered with Ant Group to help optimise cross-border processes on the new blockchain powered platform.
September 30, 2020BNP Paribas Securities Services and Digital Asset have joined forces to design real-time trade and settlement apps using DAML smart contracts.
September 16, 2020The unified payment solution for consumers and merchants across Europe will encompass a payment card, digital wallet, and online and P2P payments.
July 6, 2020Two former employees of a crude oil products supplier allegedly created fictitious sales contracts and invoices to obtain $340mn in financing from eight banks.
June 16, 2020Seven major firms have already set up FX pricing and matching engines in Singapore, the result of a MAS initiative to lower routing latencies in the city-state.
June 9, 2020The bank and three executives were fined for failing to perform customer identification obligations and report large and suspicious transactions.
June 1, 2020The Taiwan branch of Cardif Assurance Vie was fined for collaborating with banks to get clients to borrow money against old policies to buy new insurance products.
May 20, 2020