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DCW Monthly: June 2025
This month we’re digging into the legal, operational, and regulatory tensions at the core of LC and guarantee practice.
Association of Banks in Singapore (ABS)
8 articles
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Singapore Paper Shows Banks Clear Inspection, but Gaps Remain
Four years after the Association of Banks in Singapore (ABS) roll out of a “Code of Best Practices – Commodity Financing”
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Singapore Registry Aims to Thwart Trade Finance Fraud
In a move designed to counteract the risk of duplicate financing and elevate confidence in trade financing dealings among banks
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Singapore’s eGuarantees Bring Efficiencies to Process
The Singaporean government launched eGuarantee@Gov, a simple and secure digital process whereby businesses and individuals can provide Electronic Bank Guarantees to Singapore Government agencies.
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In Memoriam: Francis Ho
Long-time trade finance operations manager Francis Ho died 1 October 2022. Francis who started in banking in October 1972 spent
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MonetaGo to Engineer Singapore’s Trade Finance Registry
The Trade Finance Registry (TFR), an initiative undertaken by the Association of Banks in Singapore (ABS) to combat duplicate financing
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Singapore to Require Additional Safeguards to Stop Digital Banking Scams
To further safeguard customers from digital banking scams, the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) and the Association of Banks in
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Impact of Singapore’s Code of Best Practices Has Been Varied
It has been more than 18 months since the Association of Banks in Singapore (ABS) published the “Code of Best
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Singapore’s ABS Establishes Industry Guidelines for Commodity Financing
The Association of Banks in Singapore (ABS), in concert with government agencies of Singapore, published a “Code of Best Practices