Put the supervisor’s 2026 expectations on one desk and count them.
- A third-party register covering every material vendor, current enough to survive inspection.
- Due diligence that produces evidence, not reassurance.
- Operational risk frameworks rebuilt against guidelines still in consultation.
- AI governance stood up while the rules are still drafts.
- Authentication flows off NRIC numbers before the December deadline.
- Board reporting that puts a number on exposure, not a colour.
Each line is a quarter of serious work, and your compliance team is two or three people who were hired for licensing and conduct, in a market where senior security practitioners are scarce and expensive to keep. The standard consulting answer of a scoping quarter followed by a delivery year was built for regulation that arrives one obligation at a time; it does not fit inside a six-month transition window, and running three of those engagements in parallel is a budget your board will not sign.
That leaves two ways through: hire senior bodies the market does not have, or change how the work gets delivered. We built Birchlogic around the second one, and Singapore is where it matters most.
Native coverage.
One programme.
Every regime below has its own buyer pain and its own clock. We run them as one programme, so evidence is collected once and the board sees one picture.
- MAS operational resilience
Notice 658 for banks and merchant banks, the equivalent notices for other licence classes, and the incoming TPRM and ORM guideline layer that extends third-party expectations to every MAS-licensed FI. Third-party registers, outsourcing-grade due diligence, board accountability.
- MAS Technology Risk Management
The full TRM domain scope. Supervisory letter response, single-domain remediation, evidence packs a MAS reviewer recognises.
- MAS AI risk and AI governance
The draft AI Risk Management Guidelines, the MindForge toolkit and its Operationalisation Handbook, ISO 42001, IMDA's agentic AI framework. An AI governance posture built against the Handbook today carries over when the guidelines land; waiting for finals is how you lose the transition window.
- PDPC
PDPA obligations plus the NRIC authentication ban, deadline 31 December 2026, enforcement from 1 January 2027. Authentication flow audit, MFA migration, breach defence readiness.
- CSA
The Cybersecurity (Amendment) Act's third-party CII regime, the 2-hour suspected-APT reporting clock, Cyber Trust mark readiness against the 2026 and 2027 certification dates.
Weeks, not quarters.
When the supervisor compresses five years into eighteen months, speed stops being a preference and becomes the only delivery model that fits inside the transition windows. Our internal AI workbench runs the bureaucratic 60 percent of the work, the senior partner spends the recovered time on judgment, and that is how a third-party readiness programme lands in four to six weeks at a depth the quarterly-cadence firms do not reach at any speed. Scope and delivery date are fixed before we start, a senior partner sits in every meeting, and pricing is on the call.
| Engagement | What it fixes | Shape |
|---|---|---|
| Notice 658 + TPRM Readiness Sprint | Your third-party register, mapped to Notice 658 and the incoming TPRM Guidelines before MAS asks. | 4 to 6 weeks |
| MAS TRM Single-Domain Sprint | One open TRM domain finding, closed by a MAS-fluent senior partner. | 4 weeks |
| MAS AI Governance Sprint | AI risk posture aligned to the draft Guidelines and the MindForge Handbook; ISO 42001 readiness where a certificate is demanded. | 4 weeks |
| vCISO Regulated · MAS | Regulator response, monthly board pack, audit committee briefings, supervisor letter response. | Month-to-month retainer |
Board-level security reviews with quantified exposure are scoped on the call.
One conversation.
Thirty minutes.
Book a 30-minute discovery call. Bring a specific Singapore blocker: a third-party register you cannot defend, a TRM domain finding from a supervisory letter, an AI feature your MAS-regulated counterparty is questioning, a December NRIC deadline nobody has scoped. We will tell you which engagement maps and in how many weeks. The call is led by Karan.