financial institution

Any bank licensed under the Banking Act (Cap. 19); any finance company licensed under the Finance Companies Act (Cap. 108); any person that is approved as a financial institution under section 28; any money-changer licensed to conduct money-changing business, or any remitter licensed to conduct remittance business, under the Money-changing and Remittance Businesses Act (Cap. 187); any insurer licensed or regulated under the Insurance Act (Cap. 142); any insurance intermediary registered or regulated under the Insurance Act; any licensed financial adviser under the Financial Advisers Act (Cap. 110); any approved holding company, securities exchange, futures exchange, recognised market operator, licensed trade repository, licensed foreign trade repository, approved clearing house, recognised clearing house or holder of a capital markets services licence under the Securities and Futures Act (Cap. 289); any trustee for a collective investment scheme authorised under section 286 of the Securities and Futures Act, that is approved under that Act; any trustee-manager of a business trust that is registered under the Business Trusts Act (Cap. 31A); any licensed trust company under the Trust Companies Act (Cap. 336); any holder of a stored value facility under the Payment Systems (Oversight) Act (Cap. 222A); any designated financial holding company under the Financial Holding Companies Act 2013 (Act 13 of 2013); any person licensed under the Banking Act (Cap. 19) to carry on the business of issuing credit cards or charge cards in Singapore; and any other person licensed, approved, registered or regulated by the Authority under any written law, but does not include such person or class of persons as the Authority may, by regulations made under this section, prescribe.