Finance News tagged Singapore

Finance 8 min

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...

DA

Daniel Koh

Pub. 8 Aug

Finance 8 min

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...

DA

Daniel Koh

Pub. 8 Aug

Finance 10 min

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...

SA

Sarah Chew

Pub. 7 Aug

Finance 8 min

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...

SA

Sarah Chew

Pub. 2 Aug

Finance 5 min

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...

RE

RECATOOLS Editorial

Pub. 2 May

Finance 5 min

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...

RE

RECATOOLS Editorial

Pub. 2 May

Finance 5 min

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...

RE

RECATOOLS Editorial

Pub. 28 Apr