Singapore Fintech Festival

It also plans to create frameworks to ensure AI reliability and transparency.

Artificial intelligence (AI) is set to reshape fraud detection and financial crime prevention across the global financial system, according to Swift Chief Executive Officer Javier Pérez-Tasso.

Tokenised deposits invert the model, allowing banks to deliver liquidity directly where required.

Falcon TST now handles about 60% of the company’s global transactions.

Central to this effort is Mastercard’s Agent Pay framework.

Human oversight remains crucial to manage AI safely.

It aims to enhance cross-border opportunities for financial institutions and AI firms.

The plan spans basic AI literacy to advanced development as technology reshapes jobs.

DPM Gan also said Singapore is focusing especially on financial services to stay globally relevant.

Technology should empower people, not replace human judgment and empathy.

Good regulation, he argued, should function as “a safety belt, not a brake."

The event is scheduled for 15 to 17 November.

SG’s regulator remains iffy on cryptocurrencies—or, in MD Menon’s words, crypto tokens.

Web 3.0 is taking over, but many businesses have yet to move past Web 1.5.

Heng kicked off the SFF 2021 and announced two new national AI programmes.

It will take place from 8 to 12 November as a hybrid event.