Venture capital/private equity (VC/PE) managers are an essential component of the enterprise financing ecosystem, specifically by providing smart capital. More Asian companies are expanding beyond their borders, which has led to a surge in capital raising in Asia and greater interest to invest in Asian companies.

Besides being a provider of capital, VC/PE managers contribute operational and business expertise to their portfolio companies. Such expertise could improve the companies' operational efficiencies and unlock new markets for the companies' products and services.

MAS has revised regulations to facilitate the activities of venture capitalists, and to give finance companies greater scope to support small and medium-sized enterprises.

We are also working with the industry on initiatives to support finance companies at various stages of the financing lifecycle and to profile ASEAN VC and PE activity and landscape through collaborative research. At the exit stage, we are looking to set up private market funding platforms to help growth companies access a wider network of investors.

Depending on your company's enterprise financing activities, it could be regulated as follows:

• Corporate finance advisers and exempt corporate finance advisers serving accredited investors hold a capital markets services licence and are governed under the Securities and Futures Act .
• Finance companies are governed by the Finance Companies Act

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