Singapore has signed competent authority agreements for the automatic exchange of financial account information with Norway on 25 October 2016 and with South Africa on 24 October 2016. Under the agreements, each country will automatically exchange information on accounts held in the respective country by tax residents of the other country based on the OECD Common Reporting Standard (CRS). The automatic exchange is to begin by September 2018 for information collected on the 2017 reporting year.