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Cryptocurrency
Singapore retreat from retail crypto sector opens way for rivals
The MAS on Wednesday unveiled proposals to restrict retail participation in digital assets.
October 29, 2022
Singapore FinTech Festival 2021
MAS embarks on 'Project Orchid' to build retail CBDC capabilities
The MAS recognises that there could be potential benefits offered by innovative retail CBDC solutions in the future.
November 09, 2021
Singapore economy
Uneven recovery raises spectre of widening income gap
How Singapore’s economy recovers from the pandemic will affect income inequality here.
October 16, 2020
Fintech
Singapore considers extending fintech funding beyond 2020
SINGAPORE (Nov 11): Singapore’s central bank is poised to extend funding for financial-technology initiatives because the five-year round ending in March has yielded positive results, its top official said.
November 11, 2019
Banking & finance
Singapore wants to become an Asian Hub for virtual banks
SINGAPORE (Nov 8): Singapore’s welcome mat to virtual banks is going beyond its own shores.
November 08, 2019
SE Asian economies
US currency manipulation threat puts Asia nations on guard
(Oct 24): Asia is bracing for the latest US Treasury report on foreign currency manipulators, coming in the middle of a trade war that shows no sign of ending.
October 24, 2019
In print this week
Singapore central bank chief says policy stimulus may not be necessary
SINGAPORE (Mar 4): Singapore’s monetary policy stance remains appropriate for current conditions and there is no need for policy stimulus if the economy performs as expected, central bank managing director Ravi Menon said.
March 01, 2019
Fintech
Ravi Menon – the architect of Singapore's financial revolution
(Dec 29): His words don't carry a fraction of Fed Chair Janet Yellen's power to move markets; nor do his actions possess the strength of Haruhiko Kuroda's balance-sheet maneuvers at the Bank of Japan. He isn't an intellectual in the mold o
December 29, 2017
Fintech
Ravi Menon advises fintech investors to be selective as some business models look 'overstretched'
SINGAPORE (Nov 7): Be selective.
November 07, 2017
MAS says 1MDB-linked penalties heavy enough
SINGAPORE (June 29): The penalties Singapore handed out in relation to its probe into 1Malaysia Development Bhd-related fund flows were strong enough to send "deterrent" signals, said its regulatory chief.
June 29, 2017