{"id":84065,"date":"2017-09-07T10:40:49","date_gmt":"2017-09-07T10:40:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=9064630e74401df207d0a11bef04de8f"},"modified":"2017-09-07T10:40:49","modified_gmt":"2017-09-07T10:40:49","slug":"news-story-uk-and-singapore-hold-3rd-financial-dialogue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=84065","title":{"rendered":"News story: UK and Singapore hold 3rd financial dialogue"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>Today (7 September 2017) the United Kingdom and Singapore held the third UK-Singapore Financial Dialogue in Singapore. Both sides exchanged views on domestic and international financial market developments and covered a broad range of areas encompassing the global economy, regulatory developments, FinTech and cyber-security.<\/p>\n<p>The Dialogue was chaired by Ms Jacqueline Loh, Deputy Managing Director of the Monetary Authority of Singapore (<abbr title=\"Monetary Authority of Singapore\">MAS<\/abbr>), and Ms Katharine Braddick, Director General (Financial Services) of HM Treasury, and attended by the British High Commissioner to Singapore, Scott Wightman, and senior officials from <abbr title=\"Monetary Authority of Singapore\">MAS<\/abbr>, HM Treasury, the Financial Conduct Authority (<abbr title=\"Financial Conduct Authority\">FCA<\/abbr>), Department for International Trade (<abbr title=\"Department for International Trade\">DIT<\/abbr>) and the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (<abbr title=\"Foreign and Commonwealth Office\">FCO<\/abbr>).<\/p>\n<p>The Dialogue discussions identified areas of joint interest and fostered a commitment for further collaboration across a number of issues, including market access, cyber-security, and FinTech. For example, the UK and Singapore have committed to strengthening financial and economic links by building on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/news\/first-ever-fintech-bridge-established-between-britain-and-singapore\">the existing UK-Singapore FinTech Bridge<\/a>   to ensure that it delivers the support needed by UK and Singaporean firms when they venture into each other\u2019s markets.<\/p>\n<p>The Dialogue also affirmed support for greater interaction between the financial industry players of both countries, and welcomed the industry roundtable that will take place on 8 September 2017 for industry leaders to discuss topics of mutual interest, as well as to strengthen private sector collaboration.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Third UK-Singapore Financial Dialogue held in Singapore.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84065"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=84065"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84065\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=84065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=84065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=84065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}