Financial market infrastructure
Georgia and Namibia sign MoUs with MAS’s new fintech network
Singapore’s GFTN agrees to provide advisory services to emerging economies’ central banks
MAS boosts support for training financial leaders
Singapore’s central bank to provide more funding to upskill promising finance professionals
Bank of Thailand launches data-sharing initiative
Central bank and regulators plan to make consent-based data-sharing mechanism operational in 2026
Bank Indonesia to launch central clearing house
Central bank says aim of CCP is to deepen country’s financial markets and mitigate systemic risks
Supervisors use generative AI to tame ‘chaotic’ data
Officials merge credit databases with unstructured reports to sharpen bank oversight, explains Banco de España ex-deputy
Hong Kong and Macao authorities link bond settlement systems
Direct connection could allow investors to trade wider variety of financial products
Marshall Islands pushes ahead with plan for monetary authority
Minister says new institution is needed to deal with financial system’s increasing vulnerability
Russia’s tangled web of sanctions evasion
Central bank has been at heart of efforts to ensure continued payments from oil sales
World Bank approves credit financing for Pacific islands
Local banks could use funds to secure correspondent banking relationships in event of emergency
US Bancorp ever more reliant on LCR relief
HQLAs would only cover 91.4% of bank’s net cash outflows without Fed’s cap
Ukraine’s central bank cracks down on ‘money mules’
NBU says limits on transactions over next six months will give breathing space to state bodies
South Korean regulators push for benchmark rate reform
Authorities encourage wider adoption of repo-based RFR for financial transactions
India’s central bank to launch digital lending platform
New interface will enable frictionless credit, RBI governor claims
Lenders not ready for resolutions – EBA research
Authority finds commercial banks still unprepared for bail-in tool
MAS to conduct quantum security trials with major banks
Experiments on quantum key distribution aim to enhance financial sector’s cyber resilience
HKMA launches GenAI sandbox
Authority encourages banks to test use cases such as improved risk management and anti-fraud efforts
Philippines to issue up to four more digital bank licences
New entrants must bring new services to the table, central bank says
BSP launches fully automated intraday settlement facility
Central bank aims to ease gridlocks in fund transfers via its real-time gross settlement system
AI, quantum computing and tokenisation set to transform finance – Menon
But significant barriers remain preventing the technologies from unlocking their full potential
Irish central banker acknowledges ‘valid’ criticism of Dora timeline
New digital resilience regulation criticised for not giving firms enough time to comply
MAS expands asset tokenisation initiatives
Central bank publishes white paper on shared ledger system, and expands ‘Project Guardian’