The regulatory agenda across Singapore, Hong Kong, and Taiwan continues to evolve from policy design towards implementation and supervisory execution. Regulators are increasingly focused on ensuring that innovation in AI, digital assets, and sustainable finance is accompanied by robust governance, operational resilience and customer protection frameworks. Institutions are expected not only to adopt new technologies and products responsibly, but also to demonstrate clear accountability, effective controls and measurable outcomes. 

This edition examines key developments in agentic AI, stablecoin regulation, virtual asset oversight, anti-money laundering and combatting the financing of terrorism (AML/CFT) controls, climate finance and organisational culture. Together, these developments highlight a common supervisory message: innovation and growth remain encouraged, but only where governance, resilience and risk management are embedded from the outset.

September 2026 – key themes 

• Regulators are moving from AI experimentation towards supervisory expectations for agentic AI governance and accountability. 
• Stablecoin and virtual asset regulation continues to mature through licensing, prudential safeguards and AML/CFT requirements. 
• Financial crime frameworks are becoming more data-driven, collaborative and risk-based. 
• Transition finance remains a strategic priority, with increasing emphasis on credible plans, measurable outcomes and governance. 
• Regulators are linking culture, behaviour and accountability more closely to resilience and remediation effectiveness.

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