Reed Smith
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Singapore’s equities market: a new dawn for capital raising and investing?
Singapore's economy has rebounded strongly from the pandemic, driven by robust domestic and external demand amid the global recovery. However, the city-state's equities market has lagged behind its global peers in terms of listings, liquidity, and investor interest.
To enhance the competitiveness of Singapore’s capital market, the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) launched a comprehensive revitalisation plan in 2024, forming the Equities Market Review Group to strengthen the equities market. This strategy combines both demand-side and supply-side incentives and moves towards regulatory streamlining, thereby aiming to attract quality issuers and investors while improving capital-raising prospects for issuers and fund managers. This In Practice article considers the key initiatives.
A defining moment for US digital asset policy
The recent Executive Order issued by President Trump on 23 January, titled ‘Strengthening American Leadership in Digital Financial Technology’ (the Order) represents a significant shift in US digital asset policy. With a clear emphasis on supporting the “responsible growth and use of digital assets, blockchain technology, and related technologies across all sectors of the economy”, this Order outlines an ambitious regulatory framework, which we explore in this article.
10 APR 2025Decentralised infrastructure may not shield trading platforms from securities claims
In Lee et al. v Binance, No. 22-972, 2024 U.S. App. LEXIS 5616, 96 F.4th 129 (2d Cir. March 8, 2024), the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit reversed the district court’s dismissal of securities fraud class action claims against Binance, an international cryptoasset platform. The Court of Appeals held that purchasers plausibly alleged that transactions on the exchange which disclaimed having any physical location were domestic, thereby potentially subjecting Binance to US securities laws.
30 SEP 2024IMN Euro CLO Forum 2024 key takeaways
IMN’s 11th annual Euro CLO Forum took place in London in March 2024. Below is a summary of the event’s key takeaways and industry perspectives from the conference.
28 JUN 2024What are “skilled person reviews” and why are they relevant?
This In Practice article sets out what a skilled person report is, what a skilled person report can be commissioned for, what the consequences are for an entity in practice and considers how often skilled person reports are commissioned by the regulators.
1 APR 2021Tracing and freezing cryptocurrency in Hong Kong and Singapore
With the rise of cryptocurrency, fraud involving cryptocurrency has also grown exponentially. In the first of this series, as a high-level overview, we explore different methodologies and approaches to tracing, freezing and recovering cryptocurrency in Hong Kong, Singapore and other common law jurisdictions.
1 OCT 2021UK equity capital markets: reforming the listing regime
In this In Practice article the authors summarise the key features of the proposed changes to the UK listing regime.
1 JUL 2023European CMBS and its new cousin, the CRE CLO
Iain Balkwill considers the differences between CRE CLOs and European CMBS and the rationale for their application.
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