Tag: Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS)
MAS urges finance companies to moderate dividends for the financial year
The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) has called for finance companies incorporated in Singapore to cap their total dividends per share for the financial year 2020 at at 60% of 2019’s level.
MAS is doubling down on its efforts for people to adopt...
The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) has launched several initiatives to boost the adoption of its new interest benchmark.
MAS, NRF and NUS launch research institute to bolster the digitalisation...
The Asian Institute of Digital Finance (AIDF) is a new initiative from three Singaporean authorities to speed up the development of digital financial services in Asia.
Only 14 out of 21 digital banking applications approved by MAS
The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) has rejected eight out of the 21 digital banking applications submitted by the beginning of the year, but more are heading for the chopping block.
MAS boss warns against countries closing themselves off in the Covid-19...
As the Covid-19 pandemic risks intensifying the move away from globalisation and towards isolationism, the managing director of the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) urged for more connectivity, not less.
MAS launches $1.25m FinTech innovation challenge to help tackle Covid-19 fallout
The MAS Global FinTech Innovation Challenge is a new Singapore-based $1.25m innitative that seeks out innovative solutions that can help tackle the effects of the coronavirus and climate change.
Microsoft doubles down on its commitment to build trust about AI...
Microsoft has joined the Veritas consortium launched by the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) to improve the trust of the use of artificial intelligence in the financial industry.
Saudi, Singaporean and other international regulators launch G20 TechSprint 2020 to...
The Saudi G20 Presidency and the BIS Innovation Hub in Singapore have launched the G20 TechSprint in support with other international authorities to highlight the potential of RegTech and supervision technology (SupTech).
Singapore’s regulators announce new measures to give investors more flexibility to...
The Ministry of Finance (MOF), the Inland Revenue Authority of Singapore (IRAS), and the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) have unveiled new measures to help real estate investment trusts tackle the coronavirus.
iSTOX has graduated from Monetary Authority of Singapore’s Fintech Regulatory Sandbox
The capital markets platform iSTOX may have become the first one-stop digitised securities issuance, custody and trading platform to be approved and licensed by a major regulator after graduating from the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS)'s Fintech Regulatory Sandbox.
