Ravi Menon
Menon encourages Chinese companies to explore offshore
Managing director of MAS considers connectivity between China and South-east Asia; suggests corporates recycle capital through securitisation
MAS's Menon hails local alternative to cash
MAS director says Singapore's electronic transfer system potentially 'safer and cheaper' than notes and coins; wants people to be able to make payments using social networks
Macro-prudential tools can influence inflation, Menon says
MAS managing director outlines interaction of prudential tools and monetary policy, saying Singapore deliberately used macro-prudential tools to help lower inflation
Singapore MD imagines gleaming future for island state
Ravi Menon delivers a speech looking back from an imagined 2065, highlighting the potential of both Singapore and the wider South-east Asian economy
MAS enlists financial leaders to 'co-create' industry policies
Advisory panel comprising 26 industry leaders will provide "insights and experience" to central bank efforts aimed at making Singapore's financial sector more competitive
MAS to set up financial technology and innovation unit
Central bank rejigs organisation as part of efforts to turn Singapore into ‘smart' financial centre; hires a global head from Citi to lead new group
MAS committing over $150m to help foster innovation
Ravi Menon reveals plans to help create a ‘vibrant ecosystem for innovation’ including the provision of funds to help lure banks into basing their R&D centres in the country
Menon praises Asian strides in face of new bank regulation
Ravi Menon and San Francisco Fed's John Williams discussed banking reforms at one of three events hosted by Monetary Authority of Singapore last week
MAS chief sees SWFs struggling with secular stagnation
Ravi Menon urges sovereign wealth funds to move beyond traditional asset classes to tackle diminishing returns
China’s cooling property market ‘a challenge’ to growth objectives
RBA governor Glenn Stevens sees property market as a challenge to Chinese authorities’ growth objectives; Dallas Fed economists concerned about impact on shadow banking sector
Emerging market governors favour Fed policy normalisation, says MAS’ Menon
MAS head Ravi Menon says most emerging market central banks want to see the Fed normalise policy, China is at an inflection point and Singapore could lose out from new OTC derivatives rules
MAS' Ravi Menon on Fed policy, China and global regulation
Monetary Authority of Singapore head speaks about Fed policy normalisation, China’s economic trials, global regulatory reforms, macro-prudential policy challenges and regional economic integration
Menon: ‘Too early’ to ease macro-prudential policies
Managing director says there are ‘some indications’ the property market is cooling down, but remains concerned by high prices and household debt
Menon: Monetary policy can't fill ‘all the cracks'
MAS managing director says monetary policy cannot ensure financial stability alone, as vulnerabilities tend to concentrate in specific sectors
MAS' Menon warns Myanmar over ‘big bang' liberalisation
Singapore monetary authority managing director says Myanmar must liberalise its financial sector, but at a measured pace
MAS's Menon says Basel rules could hit infrastructure finance
Basel III regulations could disincentivise long-term lending, particularly to private-sector projects, warns Monetary Authority of Singapore managing director Ravi Menon
People: FSB appoints new chairs; Pakistani board reaches full strength
Three central bankers appointed to head Financial Stability Board committees; Pakistan completes drive to fill governing board; and more
MAS’s Menon says Singapore is ready for shifting financial ‘centre of gravity’
Managing director says Singapore is well prepared to take advantage of a shift in finance towards Asia, with strong regulation and close links to the rest of the region
‘Crisis in the eurozone is not over’, says MAS chief
MAS's Ravi Menon offers a roadmap to central banks and governments to help ‘normalise’ the global financial system; hits out at loose monetary policies and says fiscal policy debate is misinformed
MAS head Menon outlines corporate governance challenges
Ravi Menon says a ‘culture of cynical greed’ must not be allowed to take root but that strengthening corporate governance should not necessarily involve creating more rules
Singapore and Thailand sign cross-border collateral MoU
Monetary Authority of Singapore and Bank of Thailand sign agreement to establish cross-border collateral arrangement; aims to promote financial stability in both countries
MAS's Menon calls on Asian countries to boost IMF resources
Monetary Authority of Singapore managing director Ravi Menon says Asian countries will need to contribute further to International Monetary Fund to enhance global safety net
MAS’s Menon defends central bank’s governance structure
Monetary Authority of Singapore managing director Ravi Menon says central bank has proven it can act independently “within” government