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Monetary Authority of Singapore announced an updated Board roster with effect from 1 January 2026. The Board will be chaired by Mr Gan Kim Yong, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Trade and Industry, supported by senior ministers, statutory office holders, and leaders from law, finance, academia, and public administration.

On 5 January 2026, the Monetary Authority of Singapore, announced that Mr Heng Swee Keat has relinquished his position with effect from 1 January 2026.

On 18 November 2025, Caroline D. Pham, Acting Chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, delivered a keynote address at the FIA EXPO, outlining the Commission’s strategic direction on derivatives market structure, blockchain technology, tokenization, and digital asset regulation.

On 19 December 2025, Caroline D. Pham, Acting Chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, issued a formal public statement welcoming the final report on pre-hedging released by the International Organization of Securities Commissions, reinforcing regulatory certainty for United States and global financial markets.

On 22 December 2025, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission announced a targeted expansion of its digital asset advisory framework, with Caroline D. Pham, Acting Chairman of the Commission, confirming that Rob Hadick of Dragonfly Capital Partners has joined the Global Markets Advisory Committee’s Digital Asset Markets Subcommittee. Acting Chairman Pham currently sponsors the Global Markets Advisory Committee.

On 22 December 2025, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission confirmed that Caroline D. Pham, Acting Chairman of the Commission, formally announced her departure from public service. Caroline D. Pham was sworn in as a Commissioner of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission on 14 April 2022, following nomination by the President of the United States and unanimous confirmation by the United States Senate. She assumed the role of Acting Chairman on 20 January 2025, following the inauguration of Donald J. Trump, and led the agency during a period of heightened focus on market structure, innovation, and regulatory legitimacy.

On 22 December 2025, Michael S. Selig was formally sworn in as the 16th Chairman of the United States Commodity Futures Trading Commission, for United States commodity, derivatives, and digital asset regulation. Chairman Selig was nominated by Donald J. Trump, President of the United States, on 27 October 2025, and subsequently confirmed by the United States Senate on 18 December 2025.

On 31 December 2025, the United States Commodity Futures Trading Commission announced a leadership appointment, with Chairman Michael S. Selig naming Amir Zaidi as the Commission’s Chief of Staff. The appointment comes at a strategically sensitive moment for United States derivatives and digital asset regulation, as Congress moves closer to finalising market structure legislation affecting crypto-linked commodities and futures markets.

On 13 November 2025, the Monetary Authority of Singapore and the Singapore FinTech Association announced the winners of the Global FinTech Hackcelerator and the FinTech Excellence Awards at the Singapore FinTech Festival. The awards celebrate innovative solutions developed by financial institutions, technology firms and individual leaders shaping the FinTech landscape. The Global FinTech Hackcelerator focused on artificial intelligence for financial services and featured seventeen finalists pitching on Demo Day. Three winning teams received eighty thousand dollars each. The FinTech Excellence Awards recognised solutions that advance inclusivity, sustainability, regulatory strength and emerging technology adoption. Eight winners were selected by an international judging panel from one hundred and fifty five submissions.

On 13 November 2025, the Bank of England, the Monetary Authority of Singapore and the Bank of Thailand announced a joint initiative to explore synchronised settlement mechanisms for foreign exchange transactions, under Project Meridian FX and aims to test settlement models that link real time gross settlement systems with distributed ledger based environments. The participating central banks will assess interoperability across their systems and examine multilateral use cases involving different settlement infrastructures.

On 13 November 2025, the Monetary Authority of Singapore and the Deutsche Bundesbank signed a Memorandum of Understanding to collaborate on cross border digital asset settlement. The MoU aims to enhance international financial transactions, including flows between Singapore and Germany. The MoU focuses on developing settlement solutions that reduce cost and processing time for cross border transfers. It also promotes common standards for payments, foreign exchange and securities settlement involving tokenised assets.

On 13 November 2025, the Monetary Authority of Singapore announced the successful completion of a live trial for settling interbank overnight lending transactions using wholesale central bank digital currency. The trial took place on the Singapore Dollar Test Network, an operational shared ledger designed to support settlement of tokenised financial assets. DBS, OCBC and UOB participated in the pilot and recorded the first live issuance of Singapore dollar wholesale central bank digital currency in their official books and regulatory filings.