Singapore's regional bond market

• Main Authors: Tan, Ai Tong, Tham, Yong Hwa, Woo, Fook Cheong
• Other Authors: Ding, David
• Format: Theses and Dissertations
• Language: English
• Published: 2009
• Subjects: DRNTU::Business::Finance::Fixed income::Bonds
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/20049
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Recent reports by the World Bank have projected exceptional growth potential in the emerging Asian bond markets. Such growth will generate attractive fee-based income from underwriting to trading activities. Even though the market capitalisation of the Singapore bond market is larger than that of the equity market, secondary trading in bonds has been very inactive. Previous research has identified the issues and made recommendations for improvement. Some of these recommendations have been adopted but the domestic market has yet to shown significant improvements.