Daily Briefing: SGX opens dark pool for bonds; Looking for digital health startups in Singapore

And the local bourse warns China companies over account issues.

Singapore Exchange Ltd. will open a dark pool for bonds as the 42-year-old bourse prepares to enter the institutional fixed-income trading business for the first time next year. The venue will form part of SGX’s Bond Pro platform scheduled for the first quarter of 2016, Tsai Li Renn, the bourse’s head of fixed income, said in an interview on Monday. Read more here.

Pan-Asian insurance group AIA and Japanese tech builder Konica Minolta are collaborating for a new startup accelerator based in Singapore, the companies announced today. The AIA – Konica Minolta Digital Health Accelerator will be taking applications from December 1, 2015, until January 31, 2016. The program will last for 12 weeks and will start on February 22. Find out more here.

Singapore’s bourse said it will pay closer attention to the accounting of companies with large Chinese operations after recent incidents raised questions. “Several” companies have announced changes to their financial positions in “perplexing circumstances,” Singapore Exchange Ltd. Chief Regulatory Officer Tan Boon Gin wrote in a column published on the bourse’s website Tuesday. Find out more here.

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