MONETARY AUTHORITY OF SINGAPORE

Fintech / Regtech

IFC, MAS, WEF Partner to Advance Digital Financial Inclusion

By Mark Johnston | 16/11/2023

The partnership will create and promote new financing instruments to promote digital financial inclusion in emerging and developing markets.

Fintech / Regtech

MAS-Backed Consortium Develops GenAI Risk Framework

By Editors | 16/11/2023

The risk framework will enable FIs to use GenAI in a responsible manner, including by leveraging illustrative use cases to better understand its impacts.

ESG / Sustainability

MAS, Temasek Trust Partner to Drive Fintech and Impact Investment

By Editors | 16/11/2023

MAS and Temasek Trust will explore the creation of a technology framework to facilitate collaborations between open technology-based platforms.

Crypto / Digital Assets

MAS Allows Three Firms to Issue Stablecoins

By Nithya Subramanian | 16/11/2023

The central bank is piloting the live issuance of wholesale CBDCs to instantaneously settle payments across commercial banks.

Crypto / Digital Assets

MAS Launches New Tokenisation Initiatives Under Project Guardian

By Editors | 16/11/2023

Five new industry pilots have been initiated. A new funds workstream and new digital infrastructure initiatives being launched.

Fintech / Regtech

UBS, SBI, DBS Use Digital Bond in Cross-border Repo Trade

By Manesh Samtani | 15/11/2023

The transaction involved a repo to borrow tokenised JPY against a natively-issued JPY digital bond. The tokenised JPY was used to finance the repurchase of the same bond.

Fintech / Regtech

IMF Says CBDCs Can Replace Cash; Unveils Handbook

By Nithya Subramanian | 15/11/2023

IMF’s Kristalina Georgieva said that public sector should prepare to deploy CBDCs and prepare platforms that facilitate cross-border payments.

Fintech / Regtech

Singapore to Leverage AI for Sustainability-linked Loan Issuance

By Manesh Samtani | 15/11/2023

Singapore’s Project NovA! consortium has developed MVP that uses AI to address the challenges of issuing sustainability-linked loans in the real estate sector.

ESG / Sustainability

UNDP, MAS, GLEIF Launch Global Initiative to Boost MSME Finance

By Editors | 14/11/2023

The initiative proposes to create trusted credentials that characterise an MSME’s financing worthiness based on traditional and alternative data sets.