Please note that the MAS Treasury Survey has been discontinued effective Jan 1, 2005. For statistics of foreign exchange volumes in Singapore, please visit the MAS Data Room.
Survey of Treasury Activities
FX Settlement Risk Practices
In July 2001, MAS published a report, Foreign Exchange Settlement Risk Practices in Singapore (166.4 KB) , based on the results of a survey of 39 banks in the Singapore foreign exchange market whose foreign exchange activities in total accounted for more than 90% of Singapore's total foreign exchange transactions in 1999.
Based on each EMEAP1 member's FXSR survey results, the EMEAP Working Group on Payment and Settlement Systems published a report, Foreign Exchange Settlement Risk in the East Asia-Pacific Region (256.1 KB) , in December 2001 to analyse the scale of foreign exchange settlement risk in the EMEAP region.
1 Established in 1991, EMEAP is a co-operative organisation of central banks and monetary authorities in the East Asia and Pacific region. The primary objective of EMEAP is to strengthen the co-operative relationships among its members.