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- MF Global spoke of 'strong' finances
- EC: No corp gov powers for ESAs
- FSA appoints senior investment bank adviser
- GFS has now closed
- Czechs join UK on fiscal compact sidelines
- Davos stalemate on EU's IMF funds
- Tucker: Resolution regime 'top priority'
- Saudi Arabia increases central bank role
- FSB urges Canada for one securities regulator
- CFTC set for committee to scrutinise HFT
- Fitch downgrades Belgian banks
- What corruption really costs
- UK FSA pushes for Mifid II rethink on OTCs
- Shanghai boosts global financial status
- Canada aligns credit rating rules with EU
- Bowles blasts lack of women at ECB
- Sarkozy to introduce French FTT in August
- Barnier warns on further bonus reforms
Singapore: In Focus
Building Singapore as a financial services hub
Singapore plays a key role as an important gateway to Asia, facilitating trade and investment flows, writes Ng Nam Sin, assistant managing director of the Monetary Authority.
Singapore regs ‘not unduly burdensome’
The Monetary Authority of Singapore today makes a pitch for multinational financial companies across the world to consider basing themselves in Singapore. Writing in Global Financial Strategy,…
Expert view: The tax incentives of being in Singapore
Financial services companies basing themselves in Singapore enjoy an array of tax benefits, not least an exemption on foreign earnings, writes Yeo Tuan Yao, tax counsel at Portcullis TrustNet.
GFS has now closed
Global Financial Strategy was set up in April 2010 and closed at the end of January 2012.
SGX to scrap block trades provision
Wednesday 4 Jan 2012 | Karina Whalley
The Singapore Exchange wants to scrap a provision which allows large orders of securities and derivatives trades to be gradually released into the market.
Wednesday 4 Jan 2012 | Karina Whalley
The Singapore Exchange wants to scrap a provision which allows large orders of securities and derivatives trades to be gradually released into the market.
Hong Kong ‘world’s top financial centre’
Wednesday 14 Dec 2011 | [email protected]
Hong Kong has usurped New York and London as the world’s most developed financial centre, according to a report by the World Economic Forum.
Wednesday 14 Dec 2011 | [email protected]
Hong Kong has usurped New York and London as the world’s most developed financial centre, according to a report by the World Economic Forum.
Singapore ‘vulnerable’ to capital flows
Friday 18 Nov 2011 | Andrew Hickley
Financial institutions in Singapore must remain vigilant in guarding against the risks emanating from the eurozone crisis, even if its economy has so far remained resilient to the eurozone…
Friday 18 Nov 2011 | Andrew Hickley
Financial institutions in Singapore must remain vigilant in guarding against the risks emanating from the eurozone crisis, even if its economy has so far remained resilient to the eurozone…
US sixty-ninth in ease of paying tax list
Friday 11 Nov 2011 | Will Henley
Hong Kong, Singapore and Ireland are among the least burdensome international financial centres for paying taxes according to a new survey by PWC, the World Bank and International Finance…
Friday 11 Nov 2011 | Will Henley
Hong Kong, Singapore and Ireland are among the least burdensome international financial centres for paying taxes according to a new survey by PWC, the World Bank and International Finance…
MF Global faces segregation claims
Tuesday 1 Nov 2011 | Will Henley
Regulators are probing the collapse of brokerage MF Global Holdings amid allegations that the firm did not keep customer accounts separate from its own funding sources. Some reports allege that…
Tuesday 1 Nov 2011 | Will Henley
Regulators are probing the collapse of brokerage MF Global Holdings amid allegations that the firm did not keep customer accounts separate from its own funding sources. Some reports allege that…
US drops in WEF competitiveness poll
Wednesday 7 Sep 2011 | Will Henley
Sweden and Finland have overtaken America to become the world’s third and fourth most competitive economies, according to a survey by the World Economic Forum. The US dropped down to fifth spot in…
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Wednesday 7 Sep 2011 | Will Henley
Sweden and Finland have overtaken America to become the world’s third and fourth most competitive economies, according to a survey by the World Economic Forum. The US dropped down to fifth spot in…
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EDITOR’S CHOICE
- Diamond warns against ‘Balkanisation’
- ABI: UK insurers must keep EU links
- EU Parliament site hit by hacktivists
- George Soros: New year, same crisis
- FSB: Swiss regulator needs more teeth
- OCC: Deriv fears are an overreaction
- ‘Major wave’ of Solvency II drafts in May
- IMF paper urges Aus bank capital boost
- BoE: Limit bonuses to boost bank capital
- 2012 vision: Increased regulatory exposure looms
- Barnier offers hope to NYSE/Boerse
- Esma rushes short selling consultation
- Bowles re-elected as Econ chair
- Hoogervorst hints at accounting slowdown
- Asia in the year of the dragon
- Barnier: FTT will not be forced on UK
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