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Regulation

Opinion & Features

Reinventing finance in the digital age

Since 2023, regulatory frameworks governing stablecoins have been introduced across key markets.
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Singapore FinTech Festival 2025

The key to scaling stablecoins? Global regulatory alignment, says Circle

Firms that adapt early by auditing AI systems, embedding ethics into AI design and demonstrating transparency will stand out in markets where trust is increasingly the currency of choice.
Opinion & Features

Asean firms can’t afford to ignore EU’s AI Act

These Emerging Enterprise finalists are using technologies such as AI to improve practices and processes.
Emerging Enterprise
EMERGING ENTERPRISE AWARDS 2025

Creating a safer, simpler world with technology

ST20250529_202588500687/ssshe29/Taryn Ng/Syarafana Binte Muhammad Shafeeq// (From left) SG Her Empowerment (SHE) chief executive officer How Kay Lii, chairperson Stefanie Yuen Thio and research director Natalie Chia at a media conference at the National Design Centre on May 29, 2025. They shared research from their latest study that online harms are not only rising, but are becoming dangerously normalised. Even worse, survivors seeking help from tech platforms, law enforcement, or legal systems often find themselves stuck in a maze of dead ends. ST PHOTO: TARYN NG
Opinion & Features
THE BROAD VIEW

I’ve been deepfaked – and it can happen to you

As efforts to regulate AI accelerate, what began as voluntary codes of governance is now shifting towards mandatory obligations.
Opinion & Features

How Singapore is charting its path amid AI regulatory fragmentation

After years of warnings, the regulatory wheels are starting to turn in two of Tesla’s biggest markets, the US and China, offering sharply divergent approaches.
Opinion & Features
THE BOTTOM LINE

China shows the way on dangerous car doors

The Optus headquarters in Sydney. Australia’s second-largest telco has had to deal with issues such as hackers stealing customer data and service outages.
Opinion & Features
THINKING ALOUD

A hard time ahead for Optus, Singtel’s Australian telco

Representation of Bitcoin coin cryptocurrency is seen in this illustration taken September 10, 2025. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration
Wealth & Investing

Bitcoin treasury companies: Infinite money glitch?

Financial products are likely to get more complex – and not simpler – over time
Opinion & Features
THINKING ALOUD

Independent body needed to provide guidance to investors for complex products

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