Who in Singapore is in charge of regulating all trade finance companies?

[Nithi Belliraj]

Who in Singapore is in charge of regulating all trade finance companies?

[Rahul Jai]

MAS regulates and supervises over more than 150 deposit-taking institutions in Singapore. These include full banks, wholesale banks, merchant banks, and finance companies. The Banking Act controls credit card and charge card companies in Singapore. With assets total almost US$2 trillion, Singapore’s banking sector is a key part of the country’s role in financing trade and infrastructure growth in the country and the region. It is also a well-established global private banking centre.

[George Clive]

The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) does everything that a central bank does, including making money. The Singapore dollar is the only legal form of payment. In addition to regulating financial institutions, the MAS has a department called the Financial Sector Promotion Department. This department promotes new financial activities, builds IT infrastructure and human resources for the financial sector, and comes up with the right incentives to bring international financial firms to Singapore to do business.

The Banking Act says that the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) is in charge of all banking activities. Singapore keeps legal differences between foreign banks and local banks, as well as between the types of licenses held by foreign commercial banks (full service, wholesale, and offshore).

• This reply was modified 2 years, 1 month ago by Carin G Hansen.
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