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The aim of Project Guardian is to enhance the liquidity and efficiency of financial markets in Singapore through asset tokenisation.

The application, under MAS’s asset tokenisation initiative, demonstrates blockchain’s potential in post trade, but much more work is ahead before a full rollout.

A report published this month by MAS highlights corporate opportunity in Singapore’s GSS+ market. Bond market experts weigh in on the city-state’s potential.

Moves by the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) to regulate stablecoin are being hailed as a milestone for crypto. Could it spur widespread adoption?

In a move to boost e-payments, MAS plans to eliminate corporate cheques by end of 2025 and to develop an electronic deferred payment system.

The partnership is Stacs’ latest with a certification body. It aims to tackle emissions in the logistics and transportation sector through increased information.

The BIS Innovation Hub has proven the feasibility of instant retail cross-border payments through multilateral platform, Nexus.

The two Singapore-born fintechs will address the opportunity to decarbonise the local data centre industry, currently responsible for around 7% of the city-state’s greenhouse gas emissions.

The Singapore-based firm aims to make it easier for corporates to report on ESG by leveraging ESGpedia, a registry of related data and certification, developed in partnership with MAS.

The new round brings the payments firm’s total raised to over $900 million, as it eyes further expansion into Southeast Asia.

The agreement provides Finastra’s bank customers access to Visa Direct, allowing them to offer real-time cross-border payment options to SME clients.

ESGenome has launched in Singapore as part of an effort to improve corporate ESG reporting.