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No Singapore bank received 1MDB bond proceeds, says MAS
SINGAPORE (June 8): Singapore's central bank said on Wednesday that no bank in Singapore received the US$3 billion ($4 billion) wire transfer from Goldman Sachs which had arranged the bond issuance for Malaysian state fund 1Malaysia Development Berhad
June 08, 2016
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US investigators probe Goldman Sachs over Malaysian fund 1MDB: WSJ report
BENGALURU (June 7): US law enforcement officials are attempting to identify whether Goldman Sachs Group Inc violated federal law after failing to flag a transaction in Malaysia, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing people it said were familiar with th
June 07, 2016
Singapore bond market frenzy distorts credit costs, S&P says
SINGAPORE (June 7): Corporate bond offerings by some of Singapore’s biggest companies are drawing such strong demand from investors that they are artificially lowering borrowing costs for weaker borrowers, according to S&P Global Ratings.
June 07, 2016
Singapore BSI crackdown signals cost jump for Asia private banking
SINGAPORE (June 2): Singapore’s move to shut down scandal-plagued BSI Bank Ltd.’s operations in the country is reverberating through private banks facing surging costs to combat money laundering and protracted screening of new clients.
June 02, 2016
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Ex-BSI’s Yeo denied bail by High Court, ordered held in custody pending trial
SINGAPORE (May 27): Former BSI banker Yeo Jiawei, already in remand for six weeks, was denied bail by Supreme Court Justice Chan Seng Onn in court earlier today, over-ruling Thursday’s decision by State Court’s Christopher Goh to grant him bail of $60
May 27, 2016
BSI SA will co-operate to ‘ensure a quick and fair resolution’; Stefano Coduri out as group CEO
SINGAPORE (May 24): BSI Bank’s Switzerland-based parent company BSI SA has announced in a press release on Tuesday that its group CEO Stefano Coduri has tendered his resignation with immediate effect.
May 24, 2016
BSI Bank ordered to shut down by MAS
SINGAPORE (May 24): The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) on Tuesday announced it is withdrawing BSI Bank’s status as a merchant bank in Singapore.
May 24, 2016
Does your fund own 1MDB bonds?
SINGAPORE (May 24): If you think media reports about the scandal-ridden 1Malaysia Development Bhd (1MDB) state fund have unnerved even the most daring of fund managers, think again. As many as 13 funds sold in Singapore hold US dollar-denominated bonds i
May 24, 2016
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Kit Siang questions absence of Auditor-General's final report of 1MDB tabling
KUALA LUMPUR (May 23): DAP Parliamentary Opposition leader Lim Kit Siang has asked why the Auditor-General’s final report on Ministry of Finance Inc’s 1Malaysia Development Bhd (1MDB) has yet to be tabled in Parliament.
May 23, 2016