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Sea eyes public listing for Monee, plans separate AI unit Sea Cloud
Sea Limited plans to list its payments arm Monee and launch a business AI platform called Sea Cloud, per an internal memo reviewed by Reuters.
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Sea eyes public listing for Monee, plans separate AI unit Sea Cloud
Sea Limited plans to list its payments arm Monee and launch a business AI platform called Sea Cloud, per an internal memo reviewed by Reuters.

Banks Learn That a Human Checkbox Is Not AI Oversight
A Singapore Fintech Festival roundtable heard that banks are seeding deliberate errors into AI output to keep reviewers awake — a sign that human oversight of agentic systems needs real design, not a rubber stamp.

iCapital Adds Singapore Engineers Even as AI Writes Three-Quarters of Its Code
iCapital keeps hiring product and engineering staff in Singapore while AI writes most of its code, and its Asia survey shows advisers chasing analytics over plain market access.

Auto finance's next chapter runs on trust, not just speed
X Star Technology and Aimotion's Sentosa forum drew dealers, lenders and vendors around one argument: connected auto finance only scales if trust is engineered in from the start.

Google and GovTech Put Scam Detection On Your Phone
A joint Google DeepMind and GovTech effort screens smartphone chats for scam manipulation entirely on the device, keeping private messages away from cloud servers.

DBS, OCBC and UOB push AI from pilots into daily banking
DBS, OCBC and UOB have pushed hundreds of AI deployments into production, from agentic credit memos to wealth avatars, just as MAS starts enforcing new AI risk rules.

Google, Singapore team up on AI tools to catch scams before they land
Singapore and Google deepen their cyber partnership, pairing an autonomous vulnerability-fixing programme with an on-device AI scam detector trained on local data.

MAS: tech to stay Singapore's growth engine in 2027 despite cooling
MAS expects tech-facing industries to slow yet stay the chief source of Singapore's expansion, per its Oct 14 outlook.

Asia's AI edge may come from applying tech, not bigger models
DBS Group Research argues Asia's AI opportunity lies in applying the technology to real problems rather than building the biggest models, with Singapore positioned to connect deployment, capital and governance.