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Finance Shein's Growth Collapsed From 41.1 Per Cent to 1.1 Per Cent in Three Years Finance One Deal Was Two Thirds of Singapore's Fintech Funding This Half Finance MAS Wants a 21-Day Path for Complex Funds. In May It Dropped the Advice Requirement. Finance GIC Says It Chose a Lower Return. Its Twenty-Year Number Fell to 3.4 Per Cent Finance MAS Was Asked When AI-Agent Rules Become Mandatory. It Confirmed the Scope, Not the Date Finance MAS Tightened Again and Most Economists Missed It. What "Steepening the Slope" Actually Me... Finance Shein's Growth Collapsed From 41.1 Per Cent to 1.1 Per Cent in Three Years Finance One Deal Was Two Thirds of Singapore's Fintech Funding This Half Finance MAS Wants a 21-Day Path for Complex Funds. In May It Dropped the Advice Requirement. Finance GIC Says It Chose a Lower Return. Its Twenty-Year Number Fell to 3.4 Per Cent Finance MAS Was Asked When AI-Agent Rules Become Mandatory. It Confirmed the Scope, Not the Date Finance MAS Tightened Again and Most Economists Missed It. What "Steepening the Slope" Actually Me...

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Shein's Growth Collapsed From 41.1 Per Cent to 1.1 Per Cent in Three Years

Shein raised US$1.7bn in Hong Kong and fell on its first day, at a valuation about a quarter of what private investors p...

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One Deal Was Two Thirds of Singapore's Fintech Funding This Half

The report says investment moderated. Money fell by two thirds while global fintech funding rose 43 per cent, and a sing...

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MAS Wants a 21-Day Path for Complex Funds. In May It Dropped the Advice Requirement.

MAS has proposed an Alternative Funds Appendix that would let a derivative-heavy or undiversified retail fund be authori...

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GIC Says It Chose a Lower Return. Its Twenty-Year Number Fell to 3.4 Per Cent

Asked why the rolling twenty-year real return dropped from 3.8 to 3.4 per cent, the Finance Ministry pointed to a delibe...

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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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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...

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Visa Launches "Agentic Ready" Programme in Singapore as Stablecoin Settlements Hit $7 Billion Annually

Visa has launched its Agentic Ready programme with 13 Singapore issuers to prepare banks for AI-agent payments, while it...

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Robinhood Gets MAS Approval for Singapore — What It Means for Retail Investors

Robinhood received in-principle approval from MAS to launch brokerage services in Singapore. Here is what this means for...

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Singapore CPF Investment Returns Hit 10-Year High — What Savers Need to Know in 2026

Singapore CPF investment returns hit a 10-year high in 2025. Here is what CPF members, SRS account holders, and retail i...

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