About this portal
SingaporeIQ is an information website on doing business in Singapore and on Singapore as an international financial centre. It is written for companies, entrepreneurs, investors and families from Asia, Europe, the Middle East and beyond who are setting up in Singapore or already work through it, and for the advisers who accompany them. This page explains what the site covers, where the material comes from, who publishes it and where the line to legal advice runs.
Who publishes SingaporeIQ
SingaporeIQ is published by Dr Alexander Ressos. Dr Ressos is Of Counsel with KGP Legal LLC. All Singapore law advice is provided through KGP Legal LLC, a duly licensed firm of Singapore advocates and solicitors (licence LSRA/LLC/2017/00023), 10 Anson Road #03-27 International Plaza, Singapore 079903. All enquiries should be directed to Dr Alexander Ressos at [email protected].
SingaporeIQ is an information website. It gives no legal advice, and reading it creates no client relationship. The particulars of the website operator, the conditions of use and the handling of personal data are set out in the Imprint, the Legal Terms and the Data Privacy statement. The site uses no analytics and no tracking.
What the site is for
A company entering Singapore meets a sequence of decisions which depend on one another: the choice of vehicle, the resident director and the company secretary, the tax position, the question whether the business needs a licence, the bank that will open the account, and the passes of the people who will run it. Answers to these questions are spread across statutes, MAS notices, the guidance of IRAS and ACRA, and the requirements of the banks.
SingaporeIQ brings them together in articles that answer one question at a time, in English and with a comparative eye. The overview page Doing Business in Singapore is the place to start.
The two books behind the site
Two studies by Dr Alexander Ressos supply most of the articles.
Singapore as an International Financial Centre: Entrepôt, Wealth, Commodities and the Rule of Law is published here chapter by chapter as it is written. The chapters available so far form Part A, from Temasek to the free port, and the opening of Part B, on the colony and its commerce. All published sections can be read in order. The later parts, on the years after 1942 and on the present day, are still to come.
Digital Assets Law in Singapore and Switzerland states the law as at 30 June 2026. Its Singapore parts run from the legal order and the MAS approach through private law and case law, regulation, AML/CFT and compliance and taxation and incentives to enforcement, insolvency and disputes. The comparative parts, structuring between the hubs and the practice toolkit follow. The Swiss parts of the printed book are not reproduced here. All sections are free to read.
Singapore has no company-law or litigation book on this site yet. Those subjects are covered by the overview pages and by the sections of the two books that touch them.
What the articles cover
Law. Regulation and supervision, anti-money laundering rules, sanctions, courts, arbitration and mediation, and the private law of digital assets.
Tax. The charge to income tax, the treatment of gains, double taxation agreements, fund incentives and the tax position of individuals and families.
Trusts & Fiduciary. Singapore-law trusts, trust companies, family offices and succession planning.
Banking & Finance. The banking sector, opening and keeping an account, and the trade credit on which the entrepôt was built.
Capital Markets. The securities perimeter, prospectus rules and tokenised products.
Each article carries subject tags such as Banking and Wealth Management, AML and Compliance, Tax and Transparency or Litigation and Arbitration. The register by subject and the alphabetical list show every article at a glance.
Sources and dates
Figures and dates come from official publications wherever one could be read: MAS, IRAS, ACRA, the Ministry of Manpower, Singapore Department of Statistics and the texts of the treaties. A figure is stated with its date, and a statement is left out when it could not be confirmed. Book sections state the law at the date given in the book, and later changes appear on the overview pages with their own date.
Where the line runs
The articles contain general information as at the date stated. They do not take account of anyone's circumstances, and they create no client relationship. Reading an article, writing to the publisher or receiving a reply does not establish an engagement.
All enquiries, including those on Singapore law, go directly to Dr Alexander Ressos at [email protected]. Dr Ressos can coordinate the international side of a matter and advise on Swiss, English, Hong Kong and German law. Both routes are set out on the contact page.
Corrections and suggestions
References to errors, to outdated statements and to sources that ought to have been consulted are welcome, and so are suggestions for subjects that are missing. Write to [email protected]. Corrections are made in the article concerned and, where they affect substance, noted there.
Reuse
Individual articles may be read, printed and stored for private use, and quoted within the limits of the statutory right of quotation with the source named. Suggested citation: author, title of the article, SingaporeIQ, date of access. Systematic copying, republication and the use of the content to train automated systems require prior written consent.