This article provides a summary of the key elements of the Gen AI Guide 2025 which establishes common principles and recommends best practices on the implementation of trustworthy AI in ASEAN.

This article will explore the key requirements that dealers of jewellery or other products comprising precious stones and metals must navigate in order to operate in compliance with Singapore laws.

The review and update of compliance manuals is often a matter that gets placed on the back burner behind the myriad of priorities and business needs. This update looks at a simple approach for updating and structuring compliance manuals and protocols.

The fourth quarter of 2024 and start of 2025 saw several developments that may impact the Singapore lending market. This update highlights developments relating to (i) the Enterprise Financing Scheme, (ii) the Multi-Jurisdiction Common Ground Taxonomy, (iii) the Financing Asia’s Transition Partnership and (iv) the launch of green loan provisions by the Loan Market Association.

A newly minted judicial commissioner and solicitor for more than two decades prior gives an outsider’s perspective on advocacy in Singapore.

The 2024 Dentons Rodyk Dialogue marks the eighth consecutive year of collaboration between Dentons Rodyk and the Singapore Management University (SMU) Yong Pung How School of Law's Centre for Commercial Law in Asia. This year's Dialogue focused on the existential threat of climate change, with the central theme of "Climate Engagement, Finance, and the Law".

This update looks at the merits and considerations of vendor due diligence which is the conduct of a strategic due diligence exercise on a target company prior to sale, a trend that is becoming increasingly common in controlled auction sales in Singapore.

On 30 October 2024, the Ministry of Home Affairs, Ministry of Finance, and Monetary Authority of Singapore announced the publication of Singapore’s National Anti-Money Laundering Strategy, as part of continuing efforts to maintain the effectiveness of Singapore’s anti-money laundering framework. This update takes a closer look at the Strategy.

The introduction of super-priority rescue financing provisions to Singapore’s insolvency framework adds a further bow to its attractiveness as a restructuring hub. At the same time, these tools open up avenues for abuse and predatory practices, to the detriment of the beleaguered debtor and its other creditors. This article addresses some of these issues in the context of roll-ups and cross-collateralisations, and provides suggestions as to how the rescue financing framework in Singapore may be further strengthened.