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ASEAN regulators are accelerating expectations across digital identity

ASEAN regulators are accelerating expectations across digital identity, operational resilience, cloud governance, and AI accountability. The convergence of these priorities is creating a more demanding supervisory environment where compliance and modernization must advance together. In 2026, the focus will be on integrating national digital identity schemes into onboarding and fraud processes, uplifting resilience and incident management frameworks, strengthening cloud controls and workload governance, aligning emerging supervisory standards for AI, and preparing for the next phase of cross-border payments interoperability. Institutions will need to navigate these expectations while ensuring that modernization initiatives remain stable, safe, and regulator-ready.