Singapore will relook at listing rules if there are good companies that don’t meet certain requirements: SM Lee
Felicia TanSat, 19 October 2024 at 1:18 PM SGT10-min read
The senior minister, who spoke at the FutureChina Global Forum on Oct 18, also touched on the Chinese economy, China’s fundamental change and more.
Singapore welcomes “good and reputable” companies to list on its exchange, said Senior Minister Lee Hsien Loong at a fireside chat at Business China’s FutureChina Global Forum 2024 on Oct 18. Speaking to moderator, SPH Media’s Lee Huay Leng, the senior minister added that if there are good overseas companies who are interested in listing on the Singapore Exchange S68 (SGX) but don’t fit the exchange’s rules, SM Lee asked them to let the exchange know so it can “look at [its] rules”.
So far, the SGX has welcomed a few Chinese companies to list, although their results have been “mixed” with some good and the rest, “harder to assess”.
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“It's not easy to have a stock listed overseas from where the company's business is, where that overseas market and investors there may not know exactly what's happening with the company's natural operations. So that has been a practical difficulty, but we still like to have good companies come in this year,” he says, in response to a question from the audience.