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MAS to roll out national KYC utility for Singapore

The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) is piloting a national know-your-customer (KYC) utility for financial services, based on the MyInfo digital identity service, jointly developed by the Ministry of Finance and GovTech, the lead agency for digital and data strategy in Singapore.

24 March 2017

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Regulator tells Singapore Exchange to improve outage recovery process

The Singapore Exchange has been told by the country's financial regulator to improve its recovery processes following an investigation into an outage last year which shut down trading for an entire day.

21 March 2017

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Japan and Singapore establish fintech co-operation framework

The Financial Services Agency (FSA) of Japan and the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) announced the establishment of a Co-operation Framework to enhance FinTech linkages between both countries.

13 March 2017

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MAS to extend DLT trials to securities settlement and cross-border payments

The Monetary Authority of Singapore has announced the successful conclusion of a proof-of-concept project to conduct domestic inter-bank payments using distributed ledger technology (DLT)

09 March 2017

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Singapore and Abu Dhabi sign fintech co-operation agreement

Regulatory authorities in Singapore and Abu Dhabi have inked an agreement to support fintech startups entering each territory and undertake joint project on the application of new technologies in finance, including mobile payments, distributed ledgers and big data.

08 March 2017

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Singapore's MAS sets up data analytics group

The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) continues its relentless march towards the digital future through the creation of a data analytics group.

14 February 2017

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FS-ISAC sets up Asian threat intelligence chapter with MAS

The Financial Services Information Sharing and Analysis Center (FS-ISAC) and the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) announced today that they will collaborate to establish an Asia Pacific (APAC) Regional Intelligence and Analysis Centre to encourage regional sharing and analysis of cybersecurity information within the financial services sector.

01 December 2016

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Singapore opens new grant scheme to support fintech trials

The Monetary Authority of Singapore is to provide match-funding to promising proof of concept trials of new financial technology initiatives as part of its ongoing mission to create a world-leading global fintech hub.

18 November 2016

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Singapore issues sandbox guidelines for fintech experiments

The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) today published its “regulatory sandbox” guidelines to encourage and enable experimentation of solutions that utilise technology innovatively to deliver financial products or services.

16 November 2016

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Singapore and international banks to construct interbank blockchain network

The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) is partnering R3 and a consortium of financial institutions on a proof-of-concept project to conduct inter-bank payments using blockchain technology.

16 November 2016

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ANZ and DBS open new labs to coincide with Singapore Fintech Festival

The opening of new innovation labs by ANZ and DBS in Singapore signal the start of a week-long Fintech Festival organised by the island state's central bank in partnership with the Association of Banks in Singapore.

14 November 2016

Company announcement

Monetary Authority of Singapore issues first set of data APIs

The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) today announced that it is publishing 12 sets of data from MAS’ Monthly Statistical Bulletin as Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) on the MAS website.

11 November 2016