Asia: Singapore Exchange looks beyond listings

There is a long list of structural challenges facing Singapore as a listing venue: a lack of big listing candidates, the allure of Nasdaq for new tech companies and the easy availability of private debt. SGX chief executive Boon Chye Loh believes the answer is to be a multi-asset hub – as his acquisition of Baltic Exchange shows. Is it enough to keep the exchange relevant?

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You would be forgiven for being unfamiliar with BHG Retail Real Estate Investment Trust, but the Chinese department store investment vehicle holds a particular significance in Singapore. Last December, it became the first – and only – company to list on the Singapore Exchange’s main board in the whole of 2015.

It is true that the Catalist second board mustered a dozen modest raisings and that any exchange can have a bad year in uncertain markets.

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