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Singapore as a Financial Hub in 2026: Family Offices, Asset Management, and Tokenization
The republic enters 2026 with deeper wealth pools, a maturing Variable Capital Company regime, and a tokenization agenda that is moving from pilot to production, even as competition with Hong Kong intensifies.
Singapore enters 2026 as the dominant private wealth and asset management center in Asia outside Greater China, with assets under management approaching SGD 6 trillion, more than 2,000 single family offices licensed by the Monetary Authority of Singapore, and a Variable Capital Company population exceeding 1,300. Project Guardian has shif...
Singapore as Asia's wealth hub: family offices, AUM, and the post crackdown discipline trade
Singapore's family office surge from roughly 400 to 1,400 between 2020 and 2023 has been recalibrated by the Section 13O and 13U revisions of July 2023, the Stablecoin regime, and the SGD 3 billion money laundering case of August 2023.
Singapore now sits at the centre of the Asian private wealth map. The Monetary Authority of Singapore reports total assets under management of SGD 5.4 trillion at end 2023, up from SGD 4.9 trillion a year earlier, with around 78 percent of mandates sourced from outside Singapore and 89 percent invested outside the city state. Single famil...