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What does building for a MAS-supervised institution in Singapore look like?
The regime’s technology-risk expectations are the closest any regulator comes to a code review.
The answer
Singapore’s supervisor is known for technology-risk expectations that read like an engineering review: recoverability that has been rehearsed, vendor arrangements with real exit plans, and controls that are demonstrated rather than described. A build for a MAS-supervised institution should arrive with its runbooks, its recovery rehearsal record and its outsourcing answers already written — the same artifacts this practice treats as deliverables on any engagement, held to a supervisor’s standard.
What supervision asks of a vendor’s build
Recoverability as a rehearsed fact: an unrehearsed recovery procedure is treated as absent — by this practice’s own discipline and, in effect, by the supervisor’s expectations.
A vendor exit plan with substance: export formats, escrow arrangements, and who operates the system the day the contract ends.
Evidence over assurance, throughout: the institution answers its regulator from records the system produces, not from the vendor’s deck.
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