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🇸🇬🏦 Singapore MAS Financial Institutions Directory — Banks, Fund Managers, Insurers & CMS Licensees

Search the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) Financial Institutions Directory — the canonical regulatory ground-truth for every licensed bank, capital markets services (CMS) holder, fund manager, insurer, payment institution, financial adviser, trust company, and money-changer / remittance agent legally permitted to conduct regulated financial activity in Singapore. Returns the institution's legal name, primary license type, granular license sub-types (e.g. CMS sub-licenses for dealing in capital markets products, fund management, corporate finance advisory), MAS registration ID, regulatory status (Active / Suspended / Revoked), registered Singapore address, ultimate parent's headquarters country, parent group, business focus (retail banking / wholesale banking / wealth management / investment banking / asset management / reinsurance / etc.), assets under management in SGD (where disclosed by fund managers), MAS license inception year, and the data source.

Singapore is the #3 wealth-management center in the world (after Switzerland and Hong Kong by some measures, ahead of both by AUM growth rate) and the #2 FX trading hub in Asia-Pacific after Tokyo. MAS licenses are the legal precondition for everything from running a corporate bank account for an MNC to managing a Cayman fund's Asian sleeve to underwriting captive insurance for a regional shipping conglomerate. Every wealth-management private bank — UBS, Credit Suisse legacy, Julius Baer, J.P. Morgan PB, Goldman Sachs PWM, Bank of Singapore (OCBC), DBS Private Bank — operates under MAS supervision. Every billion-dollar family office that moves its booking center from Switzerland or Hong Kong to Singapore registers an MAS-licensed fund management entity. Every Asian-focused hedge fund, every BlackRock / PIMCO / Vanguard Asian arm, every reinsurer of regional cat-risk runs through this directory.

This Actor combines a best-effort live probe of MAS's official directory at eservices.mas.gov.sg/fid with a curated, publicly-disclosed universe of Singapore's largest and most-searched MAS licensees — drawn from MAS's own published lists (the public PDF / Excel rosters MAS releases per license category), the MAS Notice 637 D-SIB list, the SFA / FAA register entries, the IRDA insurer roster, and the PSA Major Payment Institution list. You always get clean, structured data — even when MAS's JS-rendered directory UI rate-limits live scraping. Field coverage and data lineage are documented per record via the data_source field.

What you get per row

Each dataset row is a single Singapore MAS-licensed financial institution:

• institution_name — canonical legal-entity name as registered with MAS (e.g. DBS Bank Ltd, Oversea-Chinese Banking Corporation Limited, Goldman Sachs (Singapore) Pte)
• license_type — top-level MAS license category. One of: BANK (full bank, wholesale bank, merchant bank, finance company), CAPITAL_MARKETS_SERVICES (CMS — under the Securities and Futures Act), INSURANCE (direct insurer, reinsurer, captive insurer — under the Insurance Act), FUND_MANAGEMENT (LFMC / RFMC / VCFM — a CMS sub-class but reported as its own category for convenience), PAYMENT_SERVICES (MPI / SPI under the Payment Services Act 2019), FINANCIAL_ADVISER (LFA under the Financial Advisers Act), TRUST_COMPANY (under the Trust Companies Act), MONEY_CHANGER_REMITTANCE (MC / RA — under the PSA legacy regime)
• license_subtypes — list of granular sub-licenses. For a CMS firm this might be ["Dealing in Capital Markets Products (Securities)", "Fund Management"]. For a bank, the list might be ["Full Bank", "QFB - Qualifying Full Bank"]. For an insurer, ["Direct Life Insurer", "Direct General Insurer"].
• mas_id — MAS-issued registration ID, the canonical identifier MAS uses on its directory and enforcement notices. Format varies by license type but is always alphanumeric.
• regulatory_status — ACTIVE (in good standing), SUSPENDED (under enforcement / remediation), REVOKED (license permanently surrendered or revoked). Per MAS Enforcement Actions register.
• registered_address — formal Singapore address on file with MAS
• headquarters_country — ultimate parent group's home country (e.g. Singapore, United States, United Kingdom, Switzerland, China, Japan, Australia)
• parent_company — name of ultimate parent or holding entity. null for standalone Singapore-headquartered groups.
• business_focus — short label describing what this entity actually does in Singapore: Retail Banking, Wholesale Banking, Wealth Management / Private Banking, Investment Banking, Asset Management, Hedge Fund, Reinsurance, Payment Services, etc.
• aum_sgd_billion — assets under management in billions of SGD (fund managers only, where publicly disclosed via the firm's MAS Form 1 annual return or via parent-company reporting). null otherwise.
• inception_year — year the MAS license was first issued to this entity (or to its predecessor when re-licensed under updated frameworks)
• data_source — eservices.mas.gov.sg/fid + curated MAS published lists

8 use cases

1. KYC / AML compliance on Singapore counterparties — Singapore is a FATF-compliant high-trust jurisdiction, but MAS-licensed status is the legal precondition for any regulated financial activity. Before contracting with a Singapore "fund manager," "private bank," or "payment institution," confirm the entity holds a current MAS license in the correct category. An entity claiming to be a fund manager that doesn't appear in the LFMC / RFMC list is an instant red flag — possibly an unlicensed shadow firm operating from Singapore but not regulated there.

2. Sanctions / PEP screening enrichment — Every name in this directory is a regulated financial counterparty. Cross-reference with OFAC, EU consolidated, UK HMT, and UN sanctions lists, plus PEP overlays. Singapore is a major booking center for ASEAN, Greater China, and South Asian wealth — sanctions exposure via MAS-licensed private banks and CMS firms is a top concern for Western corresponding banks.

3. Counterparty due diligence on Singapore wealth managers — Family offices and HNWIs evaluating which private bank, EAM, MFO, or RFMC to engage in Singapore use this directory as the authoritative shortlist. Filter license_type = FUND_MANAGEMENT and sort by aum_sgd_billion to find the actual top-20 fund managers by size — not the ones with the best marketing.

4. Cross-border banking onboarding — Corresponding banks, payment processors, and fintechs onboarding Singapore institutional clients need MAS license verification on file as part of their CDD. Pipe this Actor's output directly into the KYC step alongside the ACRA UEN check — together they form the canonical legal-entity + regulatory-status enrichment for any Singapore financial counterparty.

5. Sales targeting for B2B fintech / SaaS — Selling KYC tooling, treasury software, fund-admin systems, regulatory-reporting software, or trade-surveillance to MAS-licensed firms? Filter by license_type and headquarters_country to build clean SDR call lists segmented by buyer profile (e.g. all CMS firms with US parent companies for an FCA-compliant trade-surveillance pitch).

6. Bloomberg / Refinitiv World-Check / Bureau van Dijk Orbis / LexisNexis Risk alternative — These platforms aggregate the same MAS license data and resell it at enterprise prices. World-Check One has the regulatory overlay but costs $10K+/seat/year. BVD Orbis has the entity-level view but costs $50K+/year/enterprise. This Actor returns the directory intel at $0.10/institution — two orders of magnitude cheaper.

7. Regulatory research and academic / policy work — MAS license counts by category over time, AUM concentration in the top-N fund managers, ratio of foreign-parented vs. Singapore-parented banks, payment-institution license rollout under the PSA — all measurable from the structured output of this Actor.

8. Journalism — financial-sector accountability — Reporters covering financial-crime cases, family-office controversies, or MAS enforcement actions (1MDB-adjacent, Wirecard-adjacent, the Singapore money-laundering case of 2023) start with the MAS directory to map who's licensed for what and which entities were touched.

How this Actor compares (vs. enterprise alternatives)

For directory-level intel — KYC, AML, sanctions screening, counterparty mapping, B2B fintech targeting — this Actor is two orders of magnitude cheaper than enterprise BVD / Bloomberg / Refinitiv / LexisNexis, and far easier to integrate than scraping the JS-rendered MAS UI yourself.

Quick start (JSON input)

{
"institution_name":"DBS",
"license_type":"ALL",
"regulatory_status":"ACTIVE",
"limit":10
}

Find every MAS-licensed fund manager (LFMC / RFMC universe)

{
"license_type":"FUND_MANAGEMENT",
"regulatory_status":"ACTIVE",
"limit":500
}

US-parented Singapore institutions (sales targeting / corresponding-bank mapping)

{
"headquarters_country":"United States",
"license_type":"ALL",
"regulatory_status":"ACTIVE",
"limit":100
}

Suspended or revoked licenses (counterparty-risk sweep)

{"regulatory_status":"REVOKED","limit":100}

Python SDK

from apify_client import ApifyClient
client = ApifyClient("YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN")
run = client.actor("nexgendata/sg-mas-financial-institutions").call(run_input={
"institution_name":"OCBC",
"license_type":"BANK",
"regulatory_status":"ACTIVE",
"limit":5,
})
for fi in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
print(f"{fi['mas_id']} — {fi['institution_name']} ({fi['license_type']}) — {fi['regulatory_status']}")

cURL

curl"https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/nexgendata~sg-mas-financial-institutions/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=YOUR_TOKEN"\
-H"Content-Type: application/json"\
-d'{"license_type":"FUND_MANAGEMENT","limit":50}'

Integrations

Pipe results to Zapier, Make.com, or n8n. Common pairings: Salesforce / HubSpot enrichment for Singapore financial-sector accounts; KYC / AML pipelines into Snowflake / BigQuery / Databricks; webhook into Slack / Microsoft Teams for fresh MAS enforcement alerts; cross-join with sanctions lists in Airtable for sanctions / PEP screening; join with the sister singapore-acra-companies Actor on UEN-style identifiers for full legal-entity + regulatory-status enrichment.

Pricing (Pay Per Event)

Cost calculator:

• 10 institutions (smoke test) = $1.01
• 50 institutions (single KYC batch) = $5.01
• 200 institutions (CMS sales-list build) = $20.01
• 500 institutions (regional fund-manager scan) = $50.01
• 2,000 institutions (full MAS-licensee universe sweep) = $200.01

Compare to Bloomberg Terminal / Refinitiv World-Check / BVD Orbis / LexisNexis Risk seat licences ($10K–$50K/year). For directory-level intel at scale this Actor is the cheapest commercial option in market.

FAQ

Is this the official MAS API? No. MAS publishes the Financial Institutions Directory at eservices.mas.gov.sg/fid, a JS-rendered search UI. This Actor probes that endpoint for liveness and falls back to a curated, publicly-disclosed universe drawn from MAS's own published lists (PDF and Excel rosters per license category), the MAS Notice 637 D-SIB list, the SFA / FAA / IRDA registers, and the PSA Major Payment Institution list.

Why a curated universe instead of full live scraping? The MAS directory UI is JS-rendered and the official PDF / Excel rosters are the canonical, more-reliable form of the data anyway. The curated set covers Singapore's largest banks (all D-SIBs, all QFBs, all major wholesale banks), the largest fund managers by AUM, the major direct insurers and reinsurers, the major Payment Services Act licensees, and a representative slice of CMS firms, trust companies, financial advisers, and remittance agents. For 95% of KYC / AML / B2B-targeting use cases this is exactly what you need.

Is the data accurate? Every record is sourced from MAS's own public registers, MAS Enforcement Actions notices, the firm's MAS-mandated public disclosures, and (for AUM) the firm's parent-company annual report or Form 1 filing. We do not republish private filings.

Are queries case-sensitive? No. Both institution_name and headquarters_country filters are case-insensitive.

What if my search returns nothing? Either no licensee in our curated universe matches your filters, or the entity is licensed but not in the top-N covered set. Use the official MAS directory UI for the long tail of MAS licensees, seeded by the MAS IDs returned by this Actor.

Is this dataset commercially usable? The MAS Financial Institutions Directory is a public regulatory register published by a Singapore government statutory body. License status, MAS IDs, registered addresses, and parent-company links are public information. Confirm your specific commercial use case with your legal team if you plan to redistribute the data.

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