Recognised as a leading international financial hub, Singapore boasts deep capital markets, a dense banking network, and one of the world’s most developed defined-contribution pension systems. Yet sophistication at the national level does not always translate into optimal decisions at the household level.

The Chinese territory is liberalising retail cryptocurrency trade to encourage crypto trading platforms to set up operations while the South-east Asian country is focusing on digital asset innovations.

Cash transfers are controversial in social policy. Some critics argue that handouts are costly, risk creating dependency, and should be used only by the poor. However, they are considered an effective source of income security and a social buffer

Three interlinked sources of inflation likely to be encountered in the decarbonisation pathway – fossilflation, greenflation and climateflation.