Singapore legislation
Section 207
Section 207
Manipulation of financial benchmarks
(1)
A person must not do any thing, cause any thing to be done or engage in any course of conduct, if the person’s purpose, or any of the person’s purposes, for doing that thing, causing that thing to be done or engaging in that course of conduct (as the case may be) is to create a false or misleading appearance as to the price, value, performance or rate of any financial benchmark.
(2)
A person must not do any thing, cause any thing to be done or engage in any course of conduct that creates, or is likely to create, a false or misleading appearance, as to the price, value, performance or rate of any financial benchmark, if —
the person knows that doing that thing, causing that thing to be done or engaging in that course of conduct (as the case may be) will create, or will likely create, that false or misleading appearance; or
the person is reckless as to whether doing that thing, causing that thing to be done or engaging in that course of conduct (as the case may be) will create, or will likely create, that false or misleading appearance.