The SGX Investor Portal at investors.sgx.com is the website where you manage your Central Depository (CDP) account, the account that holds the SGX-listed shares you own in your own name. You log in with Singpass (or a CDP Internet user ID), and once you are in, you can see your holdings, track dividends, download e-statements, set up Direct Crediting so payouts land in your bank account, and respond to corporate actions like scrip dividend and takeover offers. The portal is free, and if you buy Singapore stocks through a CDP-linked broker, this is where your shares actually live. If you only ever buy through a custodian or nominee broker, your shares sit with the broker instead, and this portal will look empty.
The Central Depository, set up in 1987 and wholly owned by SGX, is the electronic register of who owns which SGX-listed securities. When you buy a Singapore stock through a CDP-linked broker, the shares are credited into your CDP account and you are the legal owner on record. The SGX Investor Portal is simply the online front end for that account.
This matters because Singapore is one of the few markets where retail investors can hold listed shares directly rather than through a broker's nominee. Direct CDP ownership means you get company annual reports, you can attend and vote at AGMs in your own name, and your shares are not tangled up with a broker's other clients if that broker runs into trouble. The portal is how you actually see and manage all of that.
One thing to be clear on: the portal is not a trading platform. You cannot buy or sell shares inside it. Trading happens through your broker's app or website. The portal is the record-keeping and account-management layer that sits underneath your trades. To understand the split between the depository account and the brokerage account, see what a CDP account is.
Go to investors.sgx.com and choose the individual account sign-in. From 20 September 2021, individual and joint-alternate CDP account holders have been able to log in with Singpass, and that is now the simplest route for most people. If you have an older CDP Internet user ID and PIN, you can still use those instead.
Singpass login means you do not need to remember a separate CDP password, and it ties your access to the same two-factor login you already use for IRAS, CPF and HDB. If you have not used Singpass in a while, make sure your Singpass app is set up for face verification or one-time passwords before you try, because the portal hands you off to Singpass for authentication and then back to your CDP dashboard.
Joint accounts have a wrinkle. Joint-alternate holders (where any one holder can act alone) can log in via Singpass and submit instructions. Joint-and holders, where every holder must sign off together, generally cannot transact through the portal in the same way and may need to use paper forms for certain instructions. Check which type your joint account is if more than one name is on it.
Once logged in, the dashboard pulls together the records that used to arrive as paper statements in the post. The headline things you can do, all free:
It helps to split what the portal offers into three layers, because they answer different needs and the first one is the only part tied to holding shares in CDP.
People think of the portal as the place to read CDP statements, and stop there. It also bundles a set of free research and tracking tools that have nothing to do with whether you hold shares in CDP at all, so even a custodian-only investor gets some use out of logging in.
The Stock Screener is the most useful of them. It filters every SGX-listed counter by the numbers that matter to a stock picker, and it is free with no separate subscription. SGX built it with the data provider that became LSEG (Refinitiv), so the figures are exchange-grade rather than scraped.
The account-management area lists the brokerage and bank accounts tied to your CDP profile, with the firm name, account number, opening date and whether each is active. If you trade through more than one CDP-linked broker, this is the single screen that shows which brokers can settle into your CDP account, which is easy to lose track of once you have opened a few over the years.
It does not pull in custodian holdings, because those never touch CDP. What it does give you is a clean map of your direct-ownership setup: which brokers are linked, which bank account dividends flow to, and what your contact details are. Treat it as the place to spring-clean once a year and close broker links you no longer use. For the underlying account that all of this hangs off, see the CDP glossary entry.
The portal is built to work in a mobile browser, so you can check holdings, dividends and statements from your phone without a separate app, logging in with the Singpass app on the same device. That matters around dividend season and corporate-action deadlines, when you want to confirm a payout or submit an election while you are out.
SGX also publishes the SGX Mobile app for market data, prices and announcements. It is a market-watching tool rather than your CDP account, so for the depository records, the Direct Crediting setup and corporate-action elections, the investor portal in the browser is still the canonical place to act.
Direct Crediting Service (DCS) is the single most useful thing to switch on, and a lot of people forget it. DCS is a free service that pays your Singapore-dollar dividends and other cash distributions straight into your nominated bank account. Without it, some payouts default to a cheque, which you then have to bank in manually, and small uncollected dividends can sit unclaimed.
With DCS active, foreign-currency distributions are converted to Singapore dollars and credited too, and you get a monthly summary of payments showing what was paid. The participating banks are Citibank, DBS/POSB, Maybank, OCBC, Standard Chartered, HSBC and UOB.
The catch is that the bank account you nominate must be in the same name and identification number as your CDP account. A joint bank account or one in a slightly different name will be rejected. You can apply for or change your DCS bank account inside the portal, and you will get a CDP notification once the request is processed. Once your dividends are flowing in, our compound interest calculator shows what reinvesting them rather than spending them does over time.
The portal only shows shares held directly in CDP. Whether your shares land there depends entirely on the type of broker you trade through, and this trips up a lot of first-time investors.
CDP-linked brokers (DBS Vickers, OCBC Securities, UOB Kay Hian, Phillip POEMS and others) settle your trades into your own CDP account. Custodian or nominee brokers, which include most of the low-cost newer platforms, hold the shares under the broker's name on your behalf. The custodian route is usually cheaper to trade but the shares do not appear in your CDP portal, you do not get direct shareholder rights, and you depend on the broker to pass through dividends and corporate actions.
If you only ever buy through a custodian broker, logging in to the SGX Investor Portal will show an empty or near-empty account, which confuses people who think their shares should be there. They are not missing; they are just held in the broker's nominee account, not your CDP. There is nothing wrong with that, but you manage those holdings inside the broker's app, not here.
If you want shares in your own name, pick a CDP-linked broker, or use the portal's transfer function to move shares from a custodian into CDP later (the broker side usually charges for an outgoing transfer). Decide which model you want before you start buying, because moving shares around afterwards costs money and time.
Opening and holding a CDP account is free, and viewing it through the portal is free. The costs show up when you trade or move shares, and they are charged by SGX and your broker, not by the portal itself.
| Item | Rate / amount | Who charges it |
|---|---|---|
| Open and maintain CDP account | Free | SGX/CDP |
| View portal, e-statements, DCS | Free | SGX/CDP |
| SGX clearing fee | 0.0325% of contract value | SGX (per trade) |
| SGX trading fee | 0.0075% of contract value | SGX (per trade) |
| GST on commission and exchange fees | 9% | Government |
| Broker minimum commission (CDP-linked) | Often around S$25 per trade | Your broker |
| CDP share transfer | S$10.70 (incl GST) per counter | CDP |
The exchange fees are tiny in percentage terms, so for small trades it is the broker's minimum commission that hurts. A CDP-linked broker charging a roughly S$25 minimum means a S$1,000 trade is already paying about 2.5% before clearing fees, which is a lot to give up on the way in and out. If you are buying small amounts regularly, weigh that minimum against the benefit of direct CDP ownership, and compare it with the robo-advisor versus DIY ETF route where the cost structure is different.
Corporate actions are the events a company runs that need a decision from you as a shareholder, and the portal is where you respond to them electronically instead of mailing a form. The three you will meet most often:
Each event has a hard cut-off date set by the company, shown in the portal. Miss it and the default outcome applies, which for a scrip dividend usually means you just receive cash. If you hold a stock through a custodian broker instead of CDP, these elections go through the broker, not the portal, and brokers sometimes set their own earlier internal deadline, so do not assume the portal is your channel until you have confirmed where your shares sit.
You need a CDP account before the portal does anything useful. Singapore citizens and permanent residents can open one online in about 10 to 15 minutes using Singpass MyInfo, which pre-fills your name, NRIC, address, email and mobile number. You must be at least 18 and not an undischarged bankrupt.
Go to investors.sgx.com, pick the individual account sign-in, and log in with Singpass. Individual and joint-alternate CDP account holders have been able to use Singpass since 20 September 2021. If you have an older CDP Internet user ID and PIN, you can still log in with those instead.
Yes. Opening and holding a CDP account, viewing the portal, downloading e-statements and using Direct Crediting Service are all free. Costs only arise when you trade (SGX clearing and trading fees plus your broker's commission) or when you transfer shares between accounts, which costs S$10.70 including GST per counter.
Your shares are almost certainly held through a custodian or nominee broker rather than in your own CDP account. Custodian brokers, which include most low-cost platforms, hold shares under the broker's name, so they do not show up in the portal. Only shares bought through a CDP-linked broker appear here. Manage custodian holdings inside the broker's app instead.
Direct Crediting Service (DCS) is a free service that pays your Singapore-dollar dividends and cash distributions straight into your bank account, converting foreign-currency payouts to SGD along the way. It is worth switching on so payouts do not default to cheques you have to bank manually. The bank account must be in the same name and ID as your CDP account, and the participating banks are Citibank, DBS/POSB, Maybank, OCBC, Standard Chartered, HSBC and UOB.
No. The portal is for managing your CDP account, not trading. You see holdings, dividends, statements and corporate action elections there, but you buy and sell through your broker's platform. Singapore Government Securities such as T-bills and Singapore Savings Bonds settle into your CDP account and show up here once held, but you do not apply for them inside the portal. The Monetary Authority of Singapore states that cash applications go through DBS/POSB, OCBC or UOB internet banking or ATMs (or your SRS operator for SRS funds).
The portal stores up to 24 months of e-statements and 60 days of CDP notifications. Download anything you want to keep beyond those windows, since older records drop off automatically.
Not for trading through that broker, since custodian platforms hold shares in their own nominee account. You would only need a CDP account if you want shares registered in your own name with direct shareholder rights, or if you plan to apply for T-bills and Singapore Savings Bonds, which require a CDP account.
Yes, and it is free. The Stock Screener lets you filter every SGX-listed counter by sector, market capitalisation, total revenue, price-to-earnings ratio, dividend yield and return on equity, then open any counter from the results. You do not need CDP holdings to use it, so it works for custodian-only investors too. You still place the actual trade through your broker, not the portal.
Yes. You can save counters you are following into a personal watchlist, and opt in to email or SMS alerts for price moves and for account events such as a new statement or a dividend credit. These are free tools that sit alongside your CDP records, so even an investor with no CDP holdings can use the watchlist and screener after logging in.
Yes. The portal works in a mobile browser, so you can check holdings, dividends and statements and submit corporate-action elections from your phone, logging in with the Singpass app on the same device. SGX also offers the SGX Mobile app for market data, prices and announcements, but that app is for market watching, not your CDP account, so depository records and Direct Crediting are still managed in the browser portal.
The account-management area shows the brokerage and bank accounts linked to your CDP profile, with each firm name, account number, opening date and active status. It only covers CDP-linked brokers, since custodian holdings never settle into CDP and so do not appear. It is a useful once-a-year check to see which broker links are still active and which bank account your Direct Crediting dividends flow to.
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