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  The UK and Singapore Hold 11th UK-Singapore Financial Dialogue, Deepening Cooperation on Digital Finance, Capital Markets, and Sustainable Finance

  MAS HM Treasury

  October 21, 2026

  Singapore, 20 October 2026… The United Kingdom (UK) and Singapore held the 11th UK-Singapore Financial Dialogue in Singapore today. Reaffirming their strong and longstanding partnership, the discussions focused on advancing cooperation in digital finance and innovation, capital markets, sustainable finance, and regional and multilateral initiatives.

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  SEC and AMF Announce Supervisory MOU To Enhance Cooperation for Investment Advisers and Investment Service Providers

  SEC

  October 20, 2026

  Washington D.C., Oct. 20, 2026 —

  The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the French Autorité des Marchés Financiers (AMF) announced that they have entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) designed to facilitate consultation and information-sharing in the supervision of certain investment advisers and investment companies regulated by the SEC and investment service providers supervised by the AMF. The MOU establishes a comprehensive framework for consultation, cooperation, and the exchange of information between the SEC and the AMF in connection with investment service providers, investment advisers, and investment companies that operate in the U.S. and in France and are overseen by either the SEC or the AMF.

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  INTERPOL launches public awareness campaign highlighting risk of AI deepfake scams

  Interpol

  October 20, 2026

  SINGAPORE – INTERPOL has launched an awareness campaign highlighting the growing risk posed by crime that uses AI-generated or AI-altered media to scam members of the public. The campaign features three short videos, themselves AI-generated, depicting how synthetic media, commonly known as ‘deepfakes’, can be used in scams. Generative AI applications and the large language models that power them are becoming more sophisticated by the day, no longer requiring significant technical skills or investment. As well as creating hyper realistic avatars with human-like language skills, these tools can now convincingly reproduce the face or voice of a real person using a small amount of content found online.