MAS Was Asked When AI-Agent Rules Become Mandatory. It Confirmed the Scope, Not the Date
A written reply on 5 August confirmed that agentic AI sits inside guidelines MAS has not yet issued. It gave no timeline...
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Singapore's Privacy Regulator Has Not Published a Reasoned Decision Since May
We counted all 387 enforcement pages the PDPC publishes. Over the past two years, 58 of 70 outcomes were voluntary under...
Singpass Now Has Passkeys. Four in Five Scams Do Not Steal Your Password
Singpass began supporting passkeys on 1 July. They remove credential theft entirely — and 81.8 per cent of Singapore sca...
The Test Data Was Supposed to Be Fake. It Held 70,000 Real NRIC Numbers
A Singapore Land Authority test dataset created in 1998 was meant to hold only mock records. It held real names, NRIC nu...
The Region's Best "Sovereign" AI Model Is Built on Gemma and Licensed by Google
Vietnam has made national language models a strategic product. Southeast Asia's most developed answer ranks #4 of 55 — a...
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...
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