Singapore

Strong AI-related demand for semiconductors and semiconductor manufacturing equipment drove Singapore's manufacturing sector to 12.2 percent year-on-year growth in the second quarter of 2026, accelerating from 8.0 percent in the first quarter and powering the broader economy to 5.7 percent overall growth.

Singapore-based Keppel Ltd., through its connectivity division, has signed an indefeasible right of use (IRU) agreement with a global leading hyperscaler for the final remaining fiber pair on the Bifrost Cable System (Bifrost).

Volt Singapore Pte Ltd (Volt), the electric vehicle (EV) charging arm of Keppel Ltd. (Keppel)’s Infrastructure Division, and Setsco Services Pte Ltd (SETSCO), a wholly owned subsidiary of VICOM Ltd (VICOM) have launched the city state’s largest public electric bus charging hub at Jalan Papan.

Singapore's Energy Market Authority (EMA) and Japan's Electricity and Gas Market Surveillance Commission (EGC) will strengthen collaboration on energy market regulation, promote information exchange on gas and electricity markets, and facilitate knowledge sharing on market surveillance approaches, regulation design, and system stability measures.

Maybank Investment Bank expects demand from artificial intelligence (AI)-related fields to remain strong and should be the key growth driver of the semi-con sector in Singapore.

Seviora Holdings Pte. Ltd., Temasek's main asset management platform, and Churchill Asset Management LLC, the U.S. asset management company of Nuveen Private Capital, have announced the closing of an approximately $400 million Collateralized Fund Obligation (CFO).

Singaporean sovereign wealth fund GIC has on last Friday announced changes to its senior management leadership team, which will come into effect on October 1, 2026.

France's Thales, Singapore's Singtel, Optus, AIS, and Globe Telecom have deployed a multi-operator enterprise eSIM connectivity network for the Internet of Things (IoT), enabling enterprises to remotely manage connected devices across multiple countries and networks through a single centralized platform.

Only 29 percent of Singapore desk workers identify as AI sceptics, well below the global average of 37 percent and significantly lower than 53 percent in the United States, United Kingdom, and France.

As many as 76 percent of Singapore's mass affluent and high-net-worth investors use AI for finance and investment, above the global average of 72 percent, yet they continue to look to financial advisers to validate AI-generated insights before making investment decisions.