SVB Ventures Newsletter No.24 - November 2025
🔸 Singapore Fintech Festival 2025 At the Singapore FinTech Festival (SFF) 2025, AI emerged as a pivotal theme, with discussions, emphasizing its role in transforming financial services through innovation and collaboration. Key sessions highlighted the need for regulatory frameworks to support safe AI adoption, including a new partnership announced by the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) to foster responsible AI in finance. Industry leaders like DBS showcased AI integration for enhanced banking empathy and efficiency, while open-source AI initiatives and agentic systems were spotlighted for real-world applications in fraud detection and data processing. Companies such as Huawei and Alibaba Cloud demonstrated AI-driven tools for cloud-native finance, underscoring a shift toward AI agents in cross-border payments and risk management. Stablecoin payments were another focal point at SFF 2025, with emphasis on their potential to revolutionize global money movement through r...