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  • Oslo Børs: Mintra Admitted To Trading

    Date 05/10/2020

    The software company Mintra has today been admitted to trading on Merkur Market (ticker code: MNTR-ME).   

  • Tokyo Stock Exchange: The Cause And Measure Of Arrowhead System Failure

    Date 05/10/2020

    TSE would like to express our sincerest apologies to investors and the people related to the stock market for any inconvenience caused by the failure of the equity trading system, arrowhead, on October 1, 2020.

  • Reply To Singapore Parliamentary Question On Green Financing Amongst SMEs

    Date 05/10/2020

    Question:

    To ask the Prime Minister (a) whether the Government tracks the take-up rate of green financing loans and products for SMEs; and (b) what are the plans to make green financing more accessible to SMEs.

    Answer by Mr Tharman Shanmugaratnam, Senior Minister and Minister in charge of MAS:

    1.      Green and sustainable financing flows are growing strongly in Singapore. From 2019 till the first half of this year, approximately SGD 4.8 billion of green and sustainability bonds were issued in Singapore. Singapore corporates also borrowed SGD 10.2 billion through green and sustainability-linked loans [1] in the same period. While green and sustainable financing has nearly tripled from 2018 volumes [2] , we are still at an early stage of this journey, as is the case internationally. The green share of total loan and bond transactions [3] in Singapore remains modest at less than 5%, reflecting the significant opportunity for growth.  

  • Reply To Parliamentary Questions On Local Singapore Banks Involvement In The Recent Document Leaks From The US Financial Crimes Enforcement Network

    Date 05/10/2020

    Q 163. To ask the Prime Minister in view of the recent assertions by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists that a number of banks in Singapore had handled large sums of suspicious transactions (a) how will MAS address the assertions with the banks; and (b) what have been the efforts to enhance our work against suspicious transactions and money laundering.

    Answer by Mr Tharman Shanmugaratnam, Senior Minister and Minister in charge of MAS:

    1.      Mr Speaker Sir, the members’ questions arose from the leaked reports of the US Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, or FinCEN. 

    2.      Let me explain what these leaked reports are about. Suspicious Transaction Reports (STRs) are filed by financial institutions if they have reason to suspect that a financial transaction could be related to a crime. The reasons for suspicion may be due to an adverse media story on the customer, or the customer not providing a good explanation for an unusually large transaction. FinCEN receives a large number of STRs on an ongoing basis – 2.75 million in 2019.

  • SGX Welcomes The Listing Of Phillip SGD Money Market ETF, The First Of Its Kind In South East Asia

    Date 05/10/2020

    • The first Singapore-domiciled money market exchange-traded fund (ETF) on SGX, and the only money market ETF in South East Asia, starts trading today with S$100 million in initial assets under management (AUM)