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Funding & Hedging

 
 
Domestic Interbank Money Market
Repo Market
Interest Rate Swaps Market
Interest Rate Futures Market
Bond Futures
 
     
   
  Domestic Interbank Money Market  
    Typical transaction size  
      S$20-50 million  
         
    Trading hours  
      9.00 a.m. - 4.30 p.m. Singapore Time (Mon to Fri)  
         
    Settlement  
      T+1  
         
   
         
  The SGS market also benefited from the rapid development of the repo (PDF, 28.1KB), interest rate
swap, interest rate futures and bond futures markets in Singapore, which provide an
outlet for bond investors to hedge their interest rate risks.
 
 
   
  Repo Market  
    Typical transaction size  
      S$25 million  
         
    Trading hours  
      9.00 a.m. - 3.30 p.m. Singapore Time (Mon to Fri)  
         
    Settlement  
  T+1  
     
     
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  Interest Rate Swaps Market  
    Typical transaction size  
      S$20 million  
         
    Trading hours  
      8.30 a.m. - 5.00 p.m. Singapore Time (Mon to Fri)  
         
    Settlement  
      Trades done before 11 a.m. settlement T+2
Trades done after 11 a.m. settlement T+3
 
         
   
       
  Interest Rate Futures Market  
    Contract size  
      S$1,000,000 per contract  
         
    Tenor  
      3-month interest rate contract  
         
    Contract Months  
      2 nearest serial months and March, June, September and
December months on a 2-year cycle
 
         
    Daily Price Limit  
      None  
         
    Last trading day  
      Second business day preceding the third Wednesday of
the contract month.
 
         
    Final settlement price  
      The final settlement price shall be 100 minus the Association
of Banks in Singapore's (ABS) 3-Month USD/SGD SOR
(Swap Offered RATE), rounded to the nearest 1/1000th of a
percentage point, on the last trading day.
 
         
    Settlement  
      Cash  
         
    Trading hours  
      8.45 a.m. - 5.00 p.m. Singapore Time (Mon to Fri)  
         
    Trading Hours on Last Trading Day  
    8:45 am -11:00 a.m. Singapore time (Mon - Fri)  
         
     
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Bond Futures  
    Contract size  
      S$100,000 per contract  
         
    Tenor  
      5 year Singapore Government Bond  
         
    Coupon  
      3%  
         
    Contract Months  
      2 nearest quarterly months in the months of March, June,
September, and December.
 
         
    Exchange  
      The Singapore Exchange  
         
    Eligible Bonds  
      Singapore Government Bonds with 3 - 6 years remaining to
maturity from the 1st calendar day of the contract month.

The Singapore Exchange is entitled to include MAS's pre-announced
new issue or re-open issue prior to issuance date in its
basket of eligible bonds. Similarly, the Singapore Exchange is also
entitled to withdraw any potential new issue or re-open
issue should MAS decide to withdraw the bond issuance
subsequently.
 
         
    Tick size  
      0.01  
         
    Tick value  
      S$ 10  
         
    Value of 1 point  
      S$ 1,000  
         
    Price Limit  
      None  
         
    Price quotation  
      Price to two decimal places  
         
    Settlement  
      Cash  
         
    Last trading day  
      3rd last Singapore business day of the contract month  
         
    Final settlement price  
      MAS's daily fixing contributed by the 11 contributing dealers
on the last trading day at 5 p.m.

Calculation will be based on the mean of the yields obtained
at 5 p.m. excluding the highest and the lowest yields. The
average yield obtained will be used to compute the final
settlement price based on the following formula.

Price Calculations:
(0.04/Yield)[1 - (1 + Yield/2)-10]+(1 + Yield/2)-10*S$100
 
         
    Trading Hours  
      9:00 am - 5:00 p.m. Singapore time (Mon - Fri)  
         
    Trading Hours on Last Trading Day  
      9:00 am - 5:00 p.m. Singapore time (Mon - Fri)  
     
  For more information on the SGX SGS Government Bond Futures contract, please click here.  
     
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Last modified on 7/7/2006  
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