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Singapore's central bank and integrated financial regulator, overseeing banks, insurers, securities markets, and crypto-asset licensing in the city-state.
Singapore plans to bring more banks into COSMIC after the platform added 461 suspicious transaction reports in its first 12 months. RegTech vendor ZIGRAM argues each bank's own screening and monitoring decides whether shared intelligence helps or adds noise.
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Writing on dev.to, a PinkWallet author says 11 regulator, bank and consultancy documents converge on four controls for AI agents that pay. The summaries back the runtime check and the escalation threshold with named documents, while the prompt point is the author's own.
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Singapore's central bank will step up wholesale CBDC and stablecoin regulation work, MAS managing director Chia Der Jiun said on Friday. His wording is wider than central bank money alone, since deposit tokens and stablecoins get roles of their own.
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Crypto's week has U.S. CPI due Oct 14 at a forecast 3.6% and PPI on Oct 15 at 5.3%, with $116.5 million of token unlocks. The 1.7-point gap between them is down from 2.0 on the prior readings, ahead of a Fed meeting where rates are expected to hold.
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dtcpay has closed a $25m Series A with Japan's SBI Group joining as a strategic investor, and the money buys a minority position in a company whose MAS payment licence equity cannot transfer. So far the Japan corridor is an intention.
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The $400 million is Class A stock, priced on a 20-day average that will not be struck until a close expected in 2027. Neither company disclosed Tazapay's revenue, which leaves annualized volume as the only denominator on offer.
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Triple-A's July treasury attacker deposited 4,970 ETH, about $12.4 million, into Tornado Cash on Oct. 9, blockchain security firm Salus said. Getting the coins back now depends on tracers tying withdrawals from the mixer to the attacker, as Salus did once with earlier withdrawals.
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Singapore's central bank will hold financial firms accountable for vendor-supplied AI from Oct 7, 2027, with full compliance due by Oct 7, 2028. Where a vendor's evidence falls short, the firm has to close the gap with controls of its own.
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BitGo and HashKey Cloud widened their July staking deal into trading, custody and tokenized assets, with staking starting on ETH and SOL. No fees, launch dates, first clients or asset targets were given, so the first test is BitGo's own staking figures.
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Hyperliquid Labs confirmed its headquarters is in Singapore, while MAS says the decentralized derivatives venue sits outside its jurisdiction. Its traders rely on self-custody for protection, and Payward's plan for regulated Hyperliquid-based markets for eligible US customers still needs approval, crypto.news reported.
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Temasek's investment chief Rohit Sipahimalani ranks AI spending that fails to pay off as a top risk for next year, yet the fund aims to hold 15% in AI by 2031. Because that goal is a portfolio share, a fall in AI valuations would raise how much Temasek must buy to reach it.
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Anchorage Digital now gives non-US institutions USD accounts, SWIFT wires and 24/7 dollar transfers through a Standard Chartered partnership. A client that drops its separate bank keeps weekend dollar access only to firms that also bank at Standard Chartered Singapore.
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Confluent Cloud now holds an OSPAR attestation, adding Singapore's bank-sector audit to the four reports already in its Trust Center. Singapore banks vetting Confluent as an outsourced provider can start from one audit built on the banking association's own control baseline.
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Twenty-three Singapore financial firms say more than half of their 80,000-plus local staff have already had the AI training they pledged to finish by 2028. MAS chairman Gan Kim Yong also asked them to redesign jobs, and that part has pilots but no target.
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Singapore's central bank says record bond sales by large tech firms are competing with government borrowing for long-duration capital. It counts the sector's own borrowing among the forces raising the hurdle rate its AI projects have to clear.
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The Responsible Fintech Institute has put NIST-standardized signing in front of supervisors from Abu Dhabi, Bhutan and Malta. The code that would let anyone check the work comes later.
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Upbit's parent gets Visa's network and a shortlist that includes an unlaunched consortium dollar coin. There is no launch date yet, because Seoul's draft law may reserve won-stablecoin issuance for bank-controlled groups.
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Paxos's Global Dollar cleared $21.8bn of Uniswap volume in September on a circulating supply of about $3.2bn, a turnover cryptobriefing traces to a dynamic-fee hook for stablecoin pairs that went live on September 10.
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Regulators from Singapore and China met for a fourth time in Nanning and agreed to widen their taxonomy work from green activities to transition ones. A transition-labelled panda bond needs that piece before an offshore green mandate can buy it.
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SBI Holdings has put capital into Dtcpay through two Singapore vehicles it manages, taking the payment company's completed Series A to $25 million and adding a Japanese incumbent to a licensed stablecoin cap table.
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