Markets & Investing

SGX launches ADRs of 19 major Asian companies

SGX launches ADRs of 19 major Asian companies

ADR offering gives customers opportunities to act quickly on information and news-flow on major Asian companies.

Orc enables market access to Singapore Mercantile Exchange

Asian players gain unrestricted cross-border trading in futures, options and other derivatives across multiple asset classes.

Leading executives to attend SGX-hosted motorsports summit

SGX teams up with leading motorsports marketing agency JMI to introduce contribution of sport to economy.

SGX strikes deal with NTU for sophisticated financial education

Partnership launches NTU-SGX Centre for Financial Education as key training centre for capital market professionals.

J Y Pillay to quit SGX chairmanship

Board member Chew Choon Seng to be appointed as Chairman from 1 January next year.

SMX completes first trading, clearing and settlement cycle

Multi-product commodity and currency derivatives exchange builds upon its proven and scalable systems and risk management.

SGX sees sustained derivatives trading and OTC clearing growth

Reported 10% daily average value traded growth and 19% year-on-year surge in overall derivatives trading volume.

Maybank Singapore offers below 1% home loan rates

Lender also offers variable rate packages with first year rates starting from 0.8% per annum.

SGX releases proposed Policy Statement on Sustainability Reporting

Seeks feedback on adoption of sustainability reporting and policy guidelines as holistic approach towards corporate disclosure.

MAS to auction $2 billion of 20-year SGS bond

On 27 August MAS will auction $2 billion of a new 20-year SGS bond with effective issue size of only $1.8 billion.

Investment demand will continue to support gold market

China and Thailand among strongest Asian retail investment markets as total gold demand rose 36%.

Singapore bond sales expand as economy accelerates

Motivation to grab title of world's fastest-growing economy attracted companies to raise $14.1bln via notes.

SGX to delist Avaplas

The manufacturer of plastic injection molding is expected to be taken off the official list of SGX-ST starting 9:00 am on 27 August 2010.

Central Depository to assist shareholders of delisted companies

Talks between MAS and ACRA regarding possible changes to the law that will help shareholders obtain their share certificates are on-going.

MAS lifts ban on 6 brokers' structured notes sale

Encourages consumers to refer to "Making Sense of Structured Products" guidebook before investing in structured notes.

SMX and TOCOM deploy KVH-SingTel low latency network solutions

KVH and Singtel partnership offer ultra low-latency capability expansion for improving liquidity in and SMX and TOCOM.

Thai GDP on tap

Consensus and expectation are for a 6.0% drop in output which translates to 8.0% year-on-year growth.