Set out below, are the five accountability and conduct outcomes, and our comments on them.

The VCC is a new Singapore fund structure that will go live by the end of 2019. The VCC Act was passed in October 2018 and the draft regulations were released on 30 April 2019 for public consultation.

Financial technology or "FinTech" is transforming and revolutionising financial services like never before, bringing to bear exciting innovations ranging from robo-advisers to crowdfunding platforms.

Given the proliferation of digital assets, this article seeks to give a general overview of the types of exchanges which facilitate public access to digital assets as well as consider the Singapore...

Under Section 290 of the Companies Act ("CA"), a company may be wound up voluntarily either (a) on a general resolution of the members, if certain constitutional requirements are met;...

The Singapore Companies Act (Amendment) Bill 2017 is poised to revolutionise Singapore's restructuring and insolvency framework.

We believe the unannounced RFMC regime repeal date (R Day) should be sometime in 2024, or early 2025.

On 3 November 2021, MAS issued a consultation paper inviting public comments on proposed changes to the complex products regime, which generally requires capital markets products to be classified as either an Excluded Investment Product ...

The High Court also held that there was no required mutuality of debts for insolvent set-off to occur, if the debt was charged to another party.

In Chan Siew Lee Jannie v Australia and New Zealand Banking Group Ltd [2016] SGCA 23, the Singapore Court of Appeal was faced with the issue of whether a statutory demand issued to a guarantor would be deemed defective...

Singapore's recent enactment of the Choice of Court Agreements Act 2016 (No. 14 of 2016) has given effect to the Hague Convention on Choice of Court Agreements 2005...

Following the respondent Credit Insurer's refusal to pay on a claim made by the claimant Bank on a credit insurance policy covering the risk of non-payment of trade receivables assigned to the Bank under a receivables purchase facility, ...

In recent years, there have been several proposed buyout deals involving REITs and Business Trusts, the most recent being the proposed privatisation exercise by Croesus Retail Trust (CRT).

Singapore and Hong Kong recently revived the discussion on dual-class share ("DCS") structures in order to accommodate listing of new economy companies in industries such as information technology and life sciences.

Back-testing and gap analysis should also be performed whenever any changes are made to the client-facing tool.

Further, under Singapore law, there can be specific advantages to repurchased shares.

The Association of Banks in Singapore ("ABS") had on 1 June 2017 released a revised version of the Guidelines on Control Objectives and Procedures for Outsourced Service Providers (the "Guidelines").

The Plaintiff brought the suit to recover the remaining sums under the Revised Credit Facilities.

The Monetary Authority of Singapore has issued a consultation paper on 18 September 2015 with proposals to amend the SFA, FAA and the TCA, for the purposes of enhancing its supervisory powers and the business conduct requirements for regulated persons.

Singapore recently implemented a bold set of US Chapter 11 inspired restructuring laws that allow super priority rescue financing over unsecured or secured creditors.