Markets & Investing

Singapore Exchange reprimands Nel Group and its directors

SGX reported the group's failure to disclose material information on time to MAS and CAD.

Singapore Exchange reprimands Nel Group and its directors

SGX reported the group's failure to disclose material information on time to MAS and CAD.

Consensus between market regulators, participants on derivatives market structure seen

Nearly two-thirds of global market participants have implemented changes ahead of regulatory reform.

Singapore Exchange welcomes Prudential

Prudential enters as a major player in banking, financial services, and insurance sector with $27.38bln capitalisation.

Jones Lang LaSalle appoints Alistair Meadows international capital group head

Former DTZ officer strengthens the company's unit head in Asia Pacific region based in Singapore.

SGX lines up market participants to promote liquidity

SGX eyes creating pool of liquidity providers committed to trade Prudential shares in May 25 listing.

SGX, commission in Chongqing sign listing collaboration

Tie-up aims to promote the listing of companies supervised by Chongqing SASAC on SGX.

Asian investors enthusiastic about the private equity opportunity

Asia heralded as the new fundraising region for US and European Private Equity firms.

JPMorgan chooses Singapore for precious metals vault

To be opened during the third quarter of 2010, the precious metals vault facility will facilitate trading in gold and other valuable commodities.

OCBC Securities offers iPhone application based mobile trading

iOCBC TradeMobile provides Singaporeans free trading access to 14 local and international securities exchanges.

Singapore Exchange opens doors for Mann Seng Metal

The Malaysian company started trading of its shares under Catalist with market capitalisation of $22.5mln.

Asia Pacific investment activity rose by 37%

China developers' rush to close land deals as authorities tighten lending conditions pushes region's investments up.

Temasek buys stake in Chile airline

Temasek Holdings has purchased a 1.18 percent stake in LAN Airlines, Chile's flagship carrier.

Housing and Development Board issues new notes

A S$400 million, 5-year Fixed Rate Note is part of issuance under HDB's S$7bln MTN Programme.

SMX to be launched in mid 2010

The Singapore Mercantile Exchange, the first Pan-Asian multi-product commodity derivatives exchange, will be launched in Singapore middle of this year...

S-REITs face challenges despite resilience

Modest recovery in the economy and the strong supply of new properties are weighing on Singapore real estate investment trusts, says Moody's.

Singapore Commodity Exchange to start trading gold

Singapore Exchange unit SICOM will begin trading its gold deferred settlement contract on 30 March 2010 to attract new investors.

CapitaMalls Asia will join the Straits Times Index

With the half-yearly review done, CapitaMalls Asia will be replacing Cosco Corp Singapore as a constituent of the Straits Times Index (STI).