Monetary Authority of Singapore

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    Sustainable Finance

    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.

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    AI Risk & Governance

    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.

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    Sustainable Finance

    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.

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    Stablecoins

    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.

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    Tokenisation

    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.

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    Tokenisation

    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.

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    CBDCs

    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.

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    Sustainable Finance

    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.

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    Data Privacy

    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.

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    Cryptocurrency

    Singapore Crypto Lender Hodlnaut to Enter Into Liquidation

    By Editors | 13/11/2023

    Creditors rejected Hodlnaut’s restructuring plan, believing a liquidation would maximise the distribution of the remaining assets.

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