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Singapore's central bank will hold financial firms accountable for vendor-supplied AI from Oct 7, 2027, with full compliance due by Oct 7, 2028. Where a vendor's evidence falls short, the firm has to close the gap with controls of its own.
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Temasek's investment chief Rohit Sipahimalani ranks AI spending that fails to pay off as a top risk for next year, yet the fund aims to hold 15% in AI by 2031. Because that goal is a portfolio share, a fall in AI valuations would raise how much Temasek must buy to reach it.
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Confluent Cloud now holds an OSPAR attestation, adding Singapore's bank-sector audit to the four reports already in its Trust Center. Singapore banks vetting Confluent as an outsourced provider can start from one audit built on the banking association's own control baseline.
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Twenty-three Singapore financial firms say more than half of their 80,000-plus local staff have already had the AI training they pledged to finish by 2028. MAS chairman Gan Kim Yong also asked them to redesign jobs, and that part has pilots but no target.
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Singapore's central bank says record bond sales by large tech firms are competing with government borrowing for long-duration capital. It counts the sector's own borrowing among the forces raising the hurdle rate its AI projects have to clear.
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The Responsible Fintech Institute has put NIST-standardized signing in front of supervisors from Abu Dhabi, Bhutan and Malta. The code that would let anyone check the work comes later.
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Upbit's parent gets Visa's network and a shortlist that includes an unlaunched consortium dollar coin. There is no launch date yet, because Seoul's draft law may reserve won-stablecoin issuance for bank-controlled groups.
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Paxos's Global Dollar cleared $21.8bn of Uniswap volume in September on a circulating supply of about $3.2bn, a turnover cryptobriefing traces to a dynamic-fee hook for stablecoin pairs that went live on September 10.
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Regulators from Singapore and China met for a fourth time in Nanning and agreed to widen their taxonomy work from green activities to transition ones. A transition-labelled panda bond needs that piece before an offshore green mandate can buy it.
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SBI Holdings has put capital into Dtcpay through two Singapore vehicles it manages, taking the payment company's completed Series A to $25 million and adding a Japanese incumbent to a licensed stablecoin cap table.
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The National Bank of the Kyrgyz Republic signed a memorandum with CertiK covering assessments, AML advice, monitoring tools and staff training. About three months remain on the bank's own deadline to finish initial platform testing.
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A consortium of 21 financial institutions plans a dollar stablecoin for 2027, and USDC already runs natively on 35 blockchains, so TransFi's Raj Kamal argues the ledger underneath the money now matters as much as the issuer.
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Chia Der Jiun gave Singapore's financial institutions a dated order of arrival for AI, tokenisation and quantum computing at Global FinTech Fest, and only the AI half of it has a rulebook and a live consultation attached.
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Liquidators of four collapsed companies want back roughly every dollar that moved through their DBS accounts during the 1MDB thefts of 2013 and 2014, about US$1.03bn. The case sits in Singapore's High Court.
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Tracxn counts 25 rounds worth $680 million in the region in 2026 against 46 rounds worth $319 million a year before, so money per round nearly quadrupled while 21 fewer rounds got done. Singapore holds 82.5 per cent of the all-time total.
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Tong and Perez name GMX, dYdX, Hyperliquid and four others in their September 3 alert while stating that no one says the resident used any of them, leaving Connecticut with a citable list untethered to the case that prompted it.
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Peering two Regions gets you a writable endpoint on each side and no failover step to run. The commit path pays an inter-Region round trip for it. The latency SLO that survived the migration is what breaks.
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Korea Venture Investment can now stand up a Variable Capital Company and raise sub-funds in Singapore, which means the state programme will diligence GPs as an MAS-licensed local rather than as a visiting Seoul allocator.
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The MAS-backed BLOOM pilot, announced 25 August 2026, targets dollar and euro tokens for seven-day settlement. The stated aim is to complement existing infrastructure, not replace it.
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EURR is issued by a Stripe-owned Luxembourg entity, not by Revolut. The regulated fintechs are distributing on-chain money; the balance-sheet obligation sits elsewhere.
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