Singapore Exchange (SGX) - News, Articles & Research

Company announcement/markets

Singapore Exchange to allow Spac listings

Singapore Exchange (SGX) today announced new rules that enable Special Purpose Acquisition Companies (SPACs) to list on its Mainboard effective 3 September 2021.

02 September 2021

News/markets

UOB to pilot digital bond offering on Marketnode

UOB has become the first bank in Singapore to run its latest bond offering using a distributed ledger platform developed by Singapore Exchange and Temasek.

16 June 2021

News/sustainable

DBS, SGX, Standard Chartered and Temasek team on carbon exchange

DBS, Singapore Exchange, Standard Chartered and Temasek are creating a global exchange and marketplace for carbon credits.

21 May 2021

Company announcement/markets

OneConnect and Singapore Exchange collaborate to address ESG reporting needs

OneConnect Financial Technology Co., Ltd. (OneConnect) the leading technology-as-a-service platform provider and an associate of Ping An Insurance (Group) Company of China, Ltd. (“Ping An”), today said it had entered a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Singapore Exchange (SGX) to collaborate and build an environmental, social and governance (ESG) platform to facilitate and simplify the ESG disclosure processes of companies listed on SGX.

24 February 2021

News/markets

SGX, Trumid and Hillhouse prep Asian bond trading platform

Singapore Exchange is joining forces with fintech Trumid and investment firm Hillhouse Capital to build an electronic Asian bond trading platform.

09 February 2021

Company announcement

SGX and Temasek JV ties up with Covalent to build end-to-end digital infrastructure

Singapore Exchange (SGX) and Temasek today announced that its digital assets joint venture (JV) – Marketnode – has partnered with fixed income issuance and data firm, Covalent Capital (Covalent), to build Asia Pacific’s first, end-to-end digital infrastructure in the fixed income space.

29 January 2021

News/payments

MC Payment to list on the Singapore Exchange

Mobile Credit Payment is to become the first fintech company listed on the Singapore Exchange, through a reverse takeover of special purpose acqusition company Artivision Technologies.

26 January 2021

News/crypto

SGX and Temasek to develop blockchain-based digital asset trading infrastructure

Singapore Exchange and Government-owned investment firm Temasek are to establish a digital asset joint venture focused on capital markets workflows through smart contracts, ledger and tokenisation technologies.

22 January 2021

Company announcement/sustainable

SGX appoints Herry Cho as head of sustainable finance

Singapore Exchange (SGX) today announced that it has appointed Ms Herry Cho to a newly created position of Managing Director, Head of Sustainability and Sustainable Finance reporting to SGX’s CEO Mr Loh Boon Chye, with effect from 8 February 2021.

13 January 2021

Company announcement/wealth

DBS to set up digital exchange for institutional investors

DBS today announced that it will set up a digital exchange, enabling Institutional Investors and Accredited Investors to tap into a fully integrated tokenisation, trading and custody ecosystem for digital assets.

10 December 2020

Company announcement/cloud

Aquis works with SGX and AWS on trading deployment in the cloud

Aquis Exchange PLC (AQX.L), the exchange services group, is pleased to announce that its software development and licensing arm Aquis Technologies has completed a project in collaboration with Singapore Exchange (SGX) and Amazon Web Services (AWS) to validate that complex exchange architecture and operations can work as efficiently in the cloud as in physical data centres.

20 November 2020

Company announcement/markets

SGX to use Singpass ID's for central depository transaction signing

Singapore Exchange (SGX) is pioneering the use of SingPass to authorise, or sign, transactions that require a high level of security.

09 November 2020