Singapore as an International Financial Centre
Entrepôt, Wealth, Commodities and the Rule of Law. How a small settlement at the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula became a free port, an imperial entrepôt, an independent city-state and a financial centre: a study that combines the historian's, the lawyer's and the practitioner's view, published here in full, section by section.
What the book covers
The book is the companion volume to Genève, place financière internationale and follows its architecture. It reads Singapore through the free port of 1819, whose openness to every flag became the founding principle of the city, and through the wealth, the commodities and the rule of law that grew around it. Each stage left its mark on the institutions, habits and networks that clients, banks, traders and lawyers meet today.
The chapters explain the treaties of 1824 and the reception of English law, the agency houses and the credit chains between Europe, India, China and the archipelago, the clan associations and the idea of reputation as collateral, and the courts, ordinances and company law of the Crown Colony. If you want to understand why Singapore's institutions look the way they do, this is where to start.
Contents
- Part A: Origins: From Temasek to the Free Port
- Part B: Colony and Commerce (1867–1942)
- Part C: War, Independence and the Developmental State (1942–1971)
- Part D: Building a Global Financial Centre (1971–2008)
- Part E: Contemporary Wealth Management and Private Banking
- Part F: International Singapore: Law, Disputes and Diplomacy
- Part G: The Commodity Trading Hub
- Part H: Trade Finance, Fraud and Risk
- Part I: Gateway to Asia
- Part J: Language as Infrastructure: English and Bilingualism
- Part K: Singapore 2035
- Annexes: Chronology, Glossary and Statistics
Read it here
The published text is on SingaporeIQ section by section, free of charge: Singapore as an International Financial Centre – all sections. Start with the preface.
Bibliographic details
- Dr Alexander Ressos TEP, Singapore as an International Financial Centre: Entrepôt, Wealth, Commodities and the Rule of Law
- Editions Euthenia
The author
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].
Dr Ressos has been working in Singapore and Hong Kong since 2009. His profile lists his admissions. SingaporeIQ is an information website. It gives no legal advice, and reading it creates no client relationship.