Singapore's central bank has proposed new rules for stablecoins, digital currencies pegged to real money. Varun Mittal, Founder of Fintech Nation and Managing Director Country Head Singapore at Keenai Global, joins us to explain what stablecoins actually are and the tech required to build and run a stablecoin payment system.

Rena Kwok, Senior Credit Analyst at Bloomberg Intelligence, also joins us to discuss what this proposal means for Singapore's banks, why they're barred from issuing stablecoins directly, and where the actual revenue opportunity lies for them.

Singapore's central bank has proposed new rules for stablecoins, digital currencies pegged to real money. Varun Mittal, Founder of Fintech Nation and Managing Director Country Head Singapore at Keenai Global, joins us to explain what stablecoins actually are and the tech required to build and run a stablecoin payment system.Rena Kwok, Senior Credit Analyst at Bloomberg Intelligence, also joins us to discuss what this proposal means for Singapore's banks, why they're barred from issuing stablecoins directly, and where the actual revenue opportunity lies for them.

Where would your business be in 10 years time? How about 5 years from now? Or even tomorrow? Chances are, you’re already in the age of a digital business. Tech Talk is the programme that gives you access to the minds that are shaping the world of tomorrow. Hear from global and regional experts and analyst, record breaking developers, the dark-web hackers and the “crazy ones” as they give you an insight to how the world will change. Tech Talk helps you to breakdown the geeky jargons and complex codes that many often would fear. Also find out what are some the latest consumer offerings like smartphones, drones, robots, cameras, video games that are best in the market and quirky insight to a mind of a digital pop culture technology advocater, Richard Bradbury.

Where would your business be in 10 years time? How about 5 years from now? Or even tomorrow? Chances are, you’re already in the age of a digital business. Tech Talk is the programme that gives you access to the minds that are shaping the world of tomorrow. Hear from global and regional experts and analyst, record breaking developers, the dark-web hackers and the “crazy ones” as they give you an insight to how the world will change. Tech Talk helps you to breakdown the geeky jargons and complex codes that many often would fear. Also find out what are some the latest consumer offerings like smartphones, drones, robots, cameras, video games that are best in the market and quirky insight to a mind of a digital pop culture technology advocater, Richard Bradbury.

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Singapore's Stablecoin Bet: The Tech and the Impact

What on earth is happening with AI? Agents are hacking systems. Inventing their own languages. Covering their tracks and behaving like spies from a 1980s farce. 

The bosses of AI companies are behaving more cartoonishly supervillain-like than anything Marvel or DC ever created. Where even their calls for a slowdown in AI development look self-serving. 

Meanwhile, people are worrying about their jobs, the future of their children and the encroachment of AI infrastructure project on their homes and communities. If it sounds like a job for SuperMatt, you’d be wrong. He’s nobody’s hero.

What on earth is happening with AI? Agents are hacking systems. Inventing their own languages. Covering their tracks and behaving like spies from a 1980s farce. The bosses of AI companies are behaving more cartoonishly supervillain-like than anything Marvel or DC ever created. Where even their calls for a slowdown in AI development look self-serving. Meanwhile, people are worrying about their jobs, the future of their children and the encroachment of AI infrastructure project on their homes and communities. If it sounds like a job for SuperMatt, you’d be wrong. He’s nobody’s hero.

MSP376. Who Asked You? Initiate Annihilation

In a unit based, tokenized world, what is the value of a person? AI can replace all those costly inputs on seats with output from the cloud. Lawmakers tell us to get onboard or be left behind. 

Today Matt and Kishan ask, how can you be left behind by a technology that wants to replace you. And look at some of the emerging movements coalescing these fears into movements.

In a unit based, tokenized world, what is the value of a person? AI can replace all those costly inputs on seats with output from the cloud. Lawmakers tell us to get onboard or be left behind. Today Matt and Kishan ask, how can you be left behind by a technology that wants to replace you. And look at some of the emerging movements coalescing these fears into movements.

MSP375. The Human Premium

Becoming a software engineer has always started with writing code, fixing bugs, and building experience over time. But as AI takes on more of the actual coding, entry-level developers may get fewer chances to build those skills. If we are no longer training engineers through the work AI can now do, where do tomorrow's senior engineers come from?

Dr Mirza Rayana Sanzana, a lecturer in the School of Information Technology at Monash University Malaysia, explains what AI-generated coding means for software engineering and why the human touch still matters.

Becoming a software engineer has always started with writing code, fixing bugs, and building experience over time. But as AI takes on more of the actual coding, entry-level developers may get fewer chances to build those skills. If we are no longer training engineers through the work AI can now do, where do tomorrow's senior engineers come from?Dr Mirza Rayana Sanzana, a lecturer in the School of Information Technology at Monash University Malaysia, explains what AI-generated coding means for software engineering and why the human touch still matters.

Singapore's Stablecoin Bet: The Tech and the Impact

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