Singapore Exchange

Singapore’s 65 Equity Partners (65EP) establishing a market maker fund (MMF) can catalyse further liquidity in Singapore equities. It also mutually reinforces existing efforts to augment the domestic equities market. Reports of Singapore special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) listing applications by Temasek-linked entities — French asset manager Tikehau Capital, Vertex…

The initial public offer (IPO) of Nanofilm Technologies on the Singapore Exchange (SGX) may represent the same inflection point that the listing of Xero Technologies did for the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX). The listing of Xero in late 2012 laid the foundation for the ASX to establish its brand as…

Singapore can revive its economic engine and equity markets with Central Provident Fund (CPF) reforms. Tapping CPF cash to induce positive feedback loops between Singapore’s pension assets and capital markets can economically revive the domestic economy and mitigate the risks of income disparity in the post-COVID world. Successful financial centres…

Incorporating Singapore’s Housing & Development Board (HDB) apartment complexes — the city-state’s public housing assets — into residential infrastructure trusts can mitigate the issue of HDB lease decay. …

The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) should consider emulating the equity investment strategies of the Bank of Japan (BOJ) and Swiss National Bank if it seeks to revitalise Singapore’s troubled equity capital markets, especially amid concerns about its future. Since the global financial collapse of 2008, both have aggressively pursued…

Capital markets across Southeast Asia and the broader Asia Pacific (APAC) region have performed well. The APAC region dominated global IPO activity through 2018, with Deloitte activity indicating that Southeast Asia produced 135 initial public offerings (IPOs) in 10.5 months of 2018, raising S$12.0 …

As competition between capital markets across the Indo-Asia Pacific (Indo-APAC) grows, it is time Singapore’s Ministry of Finance reviews the policy of not allocating pension fund capital to underwrite liquidity in Singapore’s equities markets. …

With waves of cognitive computing developments set to disrupt multiple industries, participants in capital markets are already expressing mixed responses to advancements in artificial intelligence (A) and related technologies. …