This Monograph outlines the approach that the Monetary Authority of Singapore (“MAS”) takes towards enforcement, the role that enforcement plays in the wider objective of financial industry oversight and the key areas of MAS’ enforcement practice and powers across the financial industry.

The MAS Enforcement Report sets out the enforcement actions taken by MAS for the reporting period of July 2020 to December 2021. The report also gives an update on the progress of MAS' enforcement priorities for 2020/2021 and outlines MAS’ key enforcement priorities for 2022/2023.

Project Dunbar proved that financial institutions could use CBDCs issued by participating central banks to transact directly with each other on a shared platform. This has the potential to reduce reliance on intermediaries and, correspondingly, the costs and time taken to process cross-border transactions. The project...