{"id":25910,"date":"2026-01-05T12:32:40","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T04:32:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=25910"},"modified":"2026-01-05T12:32:40","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T04:32:40","slug":"ex-dpm-heng-swee-keat-steps-down-from-mas-board-of-directors-after-two-decades","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=25910","title":{"rendered":"EX-DPM Heng Swee Keat steps down from MAS board of directors after two decades"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"article-body-container\">\n<p class=\"whitespace-pre-wrap break-words mb-4 md:mb-6\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-component\">[SINGAPORE] Former Deputy Prime Minister Heng Swee Keat has relinquished his position as a member of the board of directors of The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) from Jan 1, MAS said on Monday (Jan 5).<\/p>\n<p class=\"whitespace-pre-wrap break-words mb-4 md:mb-6\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-component\">Gan Kim Yong, chairman of the MAS board, said, \u201cWe deeply appreciate Heng\u2019s contributions to the MAS board over the past 20 years, including in his role as managing director from 2005 to 2011.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"whitespace-pre-wrap break-words mb-4 md:mb-6\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-component\">Gan noted that Heng was instrumental in steering MAS through the 2008 financial crisis and oversaw reforms to strengthen risk management and corporate governance in financial institutions, as well as enhanced MAS\u2019 standing in global financial circles. <\/p>\n<p class=\"whitespace-pre-wrap break-words mb-4 md:mb-6\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-component\">Heng also contributed to Singapore\u2019s development as a financial hub, encouraged the adoption of financial technology and innovation, and the development of talent, Gan said. <\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"article-btg-newsletter-component\" class=\"border-t border-gray-175 py-3\">\n<div>\n<p class=\"font-lucida text-xl font-medium italic leading-normal -tracking-5% text-gray-850\">Decoding Asia newsletter: your guide to navigating Asia in a new global order. <span class=\"inline border-none p-0 font-lucida text-inherit text-xl font-medium italic leading-normal !-tracking-5% text-verticals-btblue !underline outline-none\">Sign up here to get Decoding Asia newsletter.<\/span> Delivered to your inbox. Free.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.businesstimes.com.sg\/singapore\/ex-dpm-heng-swee-keat-steps-down-mas-board-directors-after-two-decades\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[SINGAPORE] Former Deputy Prime Minister Heng Swee Keat has relinquished his position as a member of the board of directors of The Monetary Authority of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25911,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2611],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-buzz-headlines","wpcat-2611-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25910\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/25911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}