Securities litigation could be brought to Singapore

singaporeThe Monetary Authority of Singapore and the white-collar crime agency announced that there could be a large securities suit based off an incident from 2014. The potential securities fraud is based off three firms whose securities drastically increased by 800% and crashed nine months later. As a result, banks and brokers have reportedly sued to recover at least $230 million from the stock drop, but no fraudulent evidence has been presented.

Singapore has not been a major player in the past for securities suits even though jurisdictions around them are becoming more active in securities litigation. As noted in a recent post (FRT) non-U.S. group securities litigation is becoming more prevalent in Asian jurisdictions, especially China. If this stock plummet does bring a securities suit, it will be interesting to see how large of a suit this will be and how it could change the scope for Singapore in the future.

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