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Cyber Threat Intel 8 min Singapore's Banks Got an AI Threat Taskforce Before They Got AI Rules MAS and the Association of Banks stood up the ACT taskforce on 28 July with DBS, OCBC, UOB, SGX, NETS and Bank... PR Priya Nair 21 Aug 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... DA Daniel Koh 8 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... SA Sarah Chew 2 Aug ASEAN Tech 6 min 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 i... PR Priya Nair 11 Jul ASEAN Tech 6 min 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 expe... SA Sarah Chew 11 Jul ASEAN Tech 6 min 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 Hackceler... SA Sarah Chew 2 Jul Finance 6 min Stablecoins Are Becoming Settlement Plumbing — and Singapore's Rulebook Is About to Matter Early-June moves by Mastercard and Visa show stablecoins shifting from speculative asset to back-end settlemen... DA Daniel Koh 8 Jun ASEAN Tech 8 min ASEAN+3 Finance Ministers Chart Unified Cross-Border Payment Future as Tokenisation Emerges as Next Frontier The 29th ASEAN+3 Finance Ministers' Meeting endorsed connected cross-border payment architecture and tokenisat... JE Jeffrey Tan 8 May Finance 7 min The $860 Billion Agentic Commerce Opportunity: How AI Is Rewiring Global Payments From the Inside Out PayPal's $860B TAM estimate for its three new business units frames the scale of the agentic commerce opportun... DA Daniel Koh 7 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... RE RECATOOLS Editorial 2 May Cybersecurity 5 min Zero-Trust Architecture Is No Longer Optional for ASEAN Financial Institutions Zero-trust network architecture has moved from best practice to regulatory expectation for ASEAN financial ins... CY Cyber Team 15 Apr