Singapore
Swap stabilisers
Editor's letter
Losing lustre
Structured products
Defining the boundaries
Him Chuan Lim, Basel II programme director at DBS Bank in Singapore, talks to Ellen Davis about operational risk's complex relationship with both credit risk and market risk
Singapore stakes its claim
The lion city is pushing for a slice of the fast growing Islamic finance market - a move that may put it on a collision course with its more established peers, notably Malaysia.
BarCap strengthens FX in Singapore and Tokyo
Barclays Capital has added more senior personnel to its foreign exchange teams in Singapore and Tokyo.
Court slams CAO directors with $435,000 in fines
A Singapore court today handed down a total of S$700,000 ($435,000) in fines to three China Aviation Oil (CAO) directors who admitted insider trading and concealing losses.
CAO fires three Singapore managers
China Aviation Oil (Singapore) has fired three senior managers involved in last year's derivatives trading losses.
Asia’s op risk quantification challenge
Asia’s regional regulators have mixed opinions when it comes to operational risk, finds Ellen Davis
Singapore initiates competency standards
SINGAPORE – The Singapore government, through the Institute of Banking and Finance (IBF), launched the beginnings of a Financial Industry Competency Standards (FICS) programme in early September.
Collins Stewart merges G-7 currency options desks
Collins Stewart Tullett has merged the Group of Seven currency options desks of its Tullett Liberty and Prebon Yamane subsidiaries in London and Asia.
Accounting standards: Causing waves
The scheduled adoption of IAS 39 may not be causing the same waves in Asia as it is in Europe, but corporate treasurers in Australia, Hong Kong and Singapore are eyeing the 1 January deadline with increasing nervousness.
More synthetic securitisation expected in Singapore in 2003
Singapore is likely to see more synthetic securitisation deals in 2003, according to Diane Lam, a Hong Kong-based director in Standard & Poor’s structured finance group.
ST Asset Management mulls CDOs and plans to boost headcount
ST Asset Management (STAM) is planning to increase its staff – which is currently 19-strong – by one third throughout next year, in a push to become a key participant in Asia’s structured finance market, according to Chong Jiun Yeh, a senior vice…
Singapore issues risk management guidelines
SINGAPORE - Guidelines on sound risk management practices issued by Singapore regulators today emphasise the three pillars of adequate management oversight, sound risk management policies and strong risk measurement ability.
Singapore reconsiders hedge fund rules
Hot on the heels of Hong Kong’s decision to open up the hedge fund market to retail investors, the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) is now revising its own rules on retail hedge fund investments, bringing it in line with its main regional rival.