面向香港客户：在新加坡开展业务
许多香港企业集团和家族在亚洲设有第二个基地。新加坡是显而易见的比较对象：它是亚洲另一个、也是唯一另一个实行普通法的国际金融中心，拥有自己的监管机构、法院和基金载体。
第二个亚洲基地
香港企业增设新加坡基地，可能是为了接触东南亚客户，通过可变资本公司运营基金，或为家族财富提供第二个归宿。加密资产领域的创始人面临在两种监管制度之间的实际选择，书中阐述了这一选择通常如何取决于监管契合度。两地的并列比较见香港与新加坡比较。
税收协定与贸易协定
新加坡与香港之间没有全面的避免双重征税协定。一项有限协定仅涵盖国际运输中船舶和航空器的收入，因此横跨两地的架构须逐项厘清其税务状况。贸易方面的情况较为简单：《东盟—中国香港自由贸易协定》自2019年6月11日起对新加坡生效。
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Singapore as an International Financial Centre
Singapore · Book
Singapore as an International Financial Centre（新加坡：国际金融中心）— 前言
Few places show as clearly as Singapore that a financial centre can be built by design.
Singapore · Origins
海峡之地：淡马锡、新加坡拉与马来世界的海上贸易
Every financial centre begins with a place.
Singapore · Origins
作为贸易走廊的马六甲海峡
The Strait of Malacca owes its importance to the winds.
Singapore · Origins
14世纪的淡马锡与新加坡拉：考古与史志
The history of the island before 1819 rests on three kinds of written evidence: Chinese travel and geographical literature, Javanese court poetry and the Malay historical tradition.
Singapore · Origins
马六甲、柔佛与廖内群岛
Malacca, founded around 1400 by the refugee prince from Singapura, became within a few decades the greatest port of Southeast Asia.
Singapore · Origins
葡萄牙、荷兰与英国在海峡的角逐
The Portuguese who conquered Malacca in 1511 brought a new model of trade to the Strait.
Singapore · Origins
殖民前港口的启示：区位与信任
The history of the Strait before 1819 shows that geography creates opportunity. The island of Singapore occupied an exceptional position that remained unchanged throughout the period.
Singapore · Origins
A Place on the Strait: Temasek, Singapura and the Maritime Trade of the Malay World（海峡之地：淡马锡、新加坡拉与马来世界的海上贸易）：摘要
The island of Singapore controls the southern exit of the Strait of Malacca, the shortest sea route between the Indian Ocean and China, a position that made it a potential market from the earliest…
Singapore · Origins
莱佛士、东印度公司与1819年自由港
On 6 February 1819, in a ceremony on the plain beside the Singapore River, a servant of the English East India Company signed a treaty with a Malay prince whom he had recognised as sultan a few days…
Singapore · Origins
英国东印度公司与对华贸易
The English East India Company, chartered in 1600, was by the early nineteenth century a hybrid without parallel: a joint-stock company whose shareholders met in London and a sovereign power that…
Singapore · Origins
史丹福·莱佛士与威廉·法夸尔
Thomas Stamford Bingley Raffles was born on 5 July 1781 on board the ship Ann off Port Morant, Jamaica, and entered the service of the East India Company in London as a clerk in 1795, at the age of…
Singapore · Origins
与苏丹侯赛因及天猛公订立的协议
Raffles’ expedition landed on St John’s Island on 28 January 1819 and arrived at the Singapore River the next day.
Singapore · Origins
自由港原则：向所有国旗开放
The decision that shaped Singapore more than any other was the decision to make it a free port.
Singapore · Origins
早期发展与第一代商人群体
The growth of the settlement in its first years was spectacular. In the first year, the value of trade was reported at 400,000 Spanish dollars.
Singapore · Origins
1819年对金融中心的意义
The founding of 1819 established the institutional foundations on which the financial centre was later built.
Singapore · Origins
莱佛士、东印度公司与1819年自由港：摘要
The East India Company founded Singapore in 1819 to secure the route of its China trade and to break the Dutch hold on the southern Strait, under a cautious mandate that sought a British station…
Singapore · Origins
1824年条约与英属新加坡的法律基础
The treaty of 6 February 1819 gave the East India Company a trading post on an island whose legal status was contested. The Dutch disputed the authority of the sultan who had signed it.
Singapore · Origins
1824年《英荷条约》
The dispute over Singapore was one of several questions that divided Britain and the Netherlands in Asia after the Napoleonic Wars. Both powers had an interest in a settlement.
Singapore · Origins
1824年《友好同盟条约》
The agreement of 7 June 1823 had already transferred the judicial powers and land rights of the sultan and the Temenggong to the British in exchange for lifelong monthly payments of 1,500 and 800…
Singapore · Origins
海峡殖民地与《第二司法宪章》
In 1826, the East India Company combined its three possessions in the Strait – Penang, Malacca and Singapore – into a single administrative unit, the Straits Settlements.
Singapore · Origins
英国法的继受
The Second Charter did more than establish a court.
Singapore · Origins
土地、地契与财产权保障
A financial centre depends on secure property rights. Land is the most important form of collateral. A mortgage is worth only as much as the title on which it rests.
Singapore · Origins
对当今执业者的实际影响
The history examined in this chapter is not merely of antiquarian interest. Several of its consequences confront the practitioner who advises on Singapore matters today.
Singapore · Origins
法律基础与日内瓦的比较
Geneva and Singapore built their financial centres on different legal traditions.