Zhen Guang Lam

Singapore: New advisory guidelines to strengthen resilience of cloud services and data centres The Singapore Infocomm Media Development Authority (“IMDA”), have, in two advisory guidelines dated 25 February 2025, issued best practices on the resilience and security of Singapore’s compute infrastructure, namely Cloud and Data Centres.

On 26 July 2024, the Singapore financial regulator published its revised Guidelines on Licensing for Payment Service Providers. The changes to the guidelines will take effect on 26 August 2024. In this client alert, we have summarised the key amendments to the Revised Guidelines below: 1) Submission of Legal Opinion All new applicants applying for a licence under the Payment Services Act (“PS Act”) will need to submit a legal opinion with their applications.

Yesterday (30 May 2024), the Singapore government released its Model AI Governance Framework for Generative AI (“GenAI Framework”). This framework builds on the earlier Model AI Governance Framework and reflects emerging principles, concerns and technological developments in GenAI. The GenAI Framework may be accessed here. In this brief article, we have summarised the main points of the GenAI Framework below.