Financial system

Agentic AI is already being used by financial firms for fraud detection, customer service and back-office functions.

Telcos, Media & Tech

Global watchdog calls for tighter controls on agentic AI in finance

The FSB said autonomous AI introduces risks that can “materialise at great speed”

Insurance underwrites risks that unfold over decades, often across a policyholder’s working life and into retirement.

Opinion & Features

THE BROAD VIEW

Singapore’s insurance sector needs strategic consolidation, not perpetual flux

Potential sale of HSBC Life in the Republic highlights challenges posed by a fragmented market to both insurers and consumers

$Stablecoins utilise automated liquidity pools to enable direct exchange between local currencies at a fraction of today’s cost.$

Opinion & Features

From crypto to commerce: Navigating stablecoins in Asia

A calibrated strategy is needed to harness their efficiency while safeguarding monetary sovereignty

The market for private credit is an estimated US$40 trillion. It is a big engine for the economy that fuels innovation, growth and the industrial renaissance.

Opinion & Features

Private-credit fears are based on four myths

The growth of private credit in all forms has actually made our financial system more resilient and less concentrated

The report echoes recent warnings from central bankers and regulators around the world about growing financial-stability risks.

International

ECB warns high valuations boost financial-stability risks

It also cautioned that concern about high public debt in some advanced economies could strain global bond markets

The Bank of England’s Financial Stability Report mentioned “resilience” eight times in 2015; by November 2024, the term had become the dominant theme in the text. This linguistic shift has become a systemic governing principle without operational meaning.

Opinion & Features

How ‘resilience’ became global finance’s mirage of strength

The borrowed metaphor now obscures more than it explains

Tokenisation promises to unlock new frontiers.

Opinion & Features

THE BROAD VIEW

Asset tokenisation is no longer optional for financial institutions

International cooperation to develop regulatory frameworks and ensure strong investor protection is key to scaling this new system and building industry trust

Singapore’s development of an offshore market was a conscious decision to serve as a platform to orchestrate flows of regional savings into regional investments.

Opinion & Features

Singapore’s ‘secret sauce’ is balancing trust, stability and unorthodox innovation: Piyush Gupta

How this ‘unlikely financial centre’ succeeded where others have failed

Amro calls for more vigilant monitoring of unlisted MSMEs in raw materials and manufacturing, which have relatively higher levels of debt-at-risk.

Asean Business

Asean+3 financial stability at mercy of US policy swings, tested by greenback’s decline, banking’s digital shift

But grouping’s financial system remains resilient due to well-calibrated policy mixes, strong fundamentals: Amro

Bitcoin treasury companies collectively hold over one million bitcoin in reserves, representing more than 4.7% of the total circulating supply.

Wealth & Investing

Bitcoin treasury companies: Infinite money glitch?

The more successful they are, the bigger the potential for collapse

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