Business Times / 17 Nov 2025 Regulators, industry groups may need to fill gap left by closure of climate banking alliance, say observers Regulatory bodies, industry groups or regional coalitions may now have to step up to get more banks to adopt NZBA’s net-zero guidance, so that the region continues to have comprehensive standards, say observers.
Straits Times / 17 Nov 2025 Scam, fraud claims against digital banks in S'pore on the rise Banks, regulators, and telcos collaborate via the Shared Responsibility Framework. Seven banks have also co-located their staff at the Anti-Scam Centre to combat increasingly sophisticated scams.
Straits Times / 16 Nov 2025 Pofma correction order issued to MalaysiaNow over article about drug courier’s treatment MHA’s Nov 15 statement identified five broad falsehoods in the MalaysiaNow article.
Straits Times / 16 Nov 2025 When relatives couldn’t inherit $4m in their joint bank accounts with family patriarch The court clarified that survivorship clauses in bank documents are a contractual arrangement, not proof of ultimate ownership, and intentions matter.
Straits Times / 15 Nov 2025 Hin Leong founder O.K. Lim should be granted judicial mercy, like tycoon Ong Beng Seng: Defence Defence disputes the link between Lim's offences and harm to Singapore's financial sector, questioning the reliance on a joint statement about the oil trading and financial sectors' resilience after Hin Leong's collapse.