Singapore is the third largest FX centre globally after London and New York, and is the largest in Asia Pacific. Everyday, over half a trillion US dollars of FX is traded in Singapore. The FX sector is pivotal to Singapore's standing as a major trading and corporate treasury hub in the region, and underpins the vibrancy of Singapore's international financial centre.
With all of the top five global banks housing their regional FX sales and trading teams here, Singapore offers a deep and liquid market for the trading and hedging of G10 currencies, as well as Asian emerging market currencies.
As a major FX centre globally, MAS is keen to develop Singapore's FX market to serve the growing trading and hedging needs in the region. To this end, MAS is working with market participants such as banks and trading platforms to build up Singapore's e-trading infrastructure. This will improve price discovery and FX trade execution in the region, and market participants will benefit from better latency, pricing and liquidity in FX and OTC derivatives trading.
Besides Singapore's strength in OTC derivatives globally, our exchanges also offer a comprehensive suite of exchange-traded FX futures and options contracts to complement the OTC market in offering more hedging products and solutions to market participants.