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ASEAN edition · Sat, 5 Sep 2026 · Signal over noise
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Singapore's Cyber Command Ran Its First Scam Sweep. It Was the Third in Six Weeks
Singapore stood up a dedicated Cyber Command on 3 July. Its first islandwide scam sweep was the third such operation in...
MAS Tightened Again and Most Economists Missed It. What "Steepening the Slope" Actually Means
Singapore does not set an interest rate. It steers a currency band, and on 27 July it steered harder — against the expec...
Southeast Asia's Tech Funding More Than Doubled. Take Out One Data-Centre Company and It Shrank
The region raised $7.4 billion in the first half, against $3.2 billion a year earlier. One Singapore data-centre operato...
MAS's SAFR Framework Puts the Safeguard Where the Money Moves — At the Point an AI Agent Acts
Singapore's MAS and industry partners published SAFR on 3 July, a voluntary framework that governs AI agents in finance...
MAS Is Building an Institute to End the Pilot Era — Singapore's Bet That the Hard Part of Fintech Is Deployment
MAS announced on 25 June it will establish a Future of Finance Institute to move AI and tokenisation from experiments to...
MAS Opens an AI-Themed 2026 Global FinTech Hackcelerator and SFF Excellence Awards
On 29 June 2026, the Monetary Authority of Singapore opened applications for the 2026 Global FinTech Hackcelerator and t...
Three Singapore-Based Operators Moved Into South Korea's Data-Centre Market in Two Weeks
STT GDC opened its first South Korea data centre this month, days after Keppel and Digital Edge each moved on Greater Se...
Singapore's Healthy 365 App Gets a 'Wayfinding' Feature From June 2026 — Nudging You to the Park Down the Street
From June 2026, Singapore's Health Promotion Board is adding a 'wayfinding' feature to its free Healthy 365 app to point...
Singapore Refreshes Its National AI Strategy: 10 Priorities, Four Missions, and a Bet Against a Two-Speed Economy
Singapore's 20 May update to its National AI Strategy refreshes the priorities across its 10 enablers, adds four sector...
Singapore Bets on Being AI's Neutral Ground — Just as US Chip Rules Put the Middle Under Scrutiny
As Singapore AI Week and SuperAI 2026 open with a pitch to be 'neutral ground' for a fracturing AI industry, fresh US ch...
Agentic AI Governance Must Move From Policy Slides Into Runtime Controls
As AI agents move from experiments into business workflows, governance can no longer stay at the policy level. The next...
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