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Singapore Financial Authority Orders Crypto Companies to Keep Customer Assets in Trust 

CoinspeakerSingapore Financial Authority Orders Crypto Companies to Keep Customer Assets in Trust  To ensure the effective implementation of the new requirements, the financial regulator of Singapore has opened the draft legislative amendments to public feedback. Singapore Financial Authority Orders Crypto Companies to Keep Customer Assets in Trust 

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Singapore’s Central Bank Proposes Interoperable Network Design for Tokenizing Assets

Singapore’s MAS created the report with 11 banking giants to run several pilots improve market issuance by tokenizing assets. The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) is proposing a framework to develop open and interoperable networks for tokenizing assets. On Monday, the central bank published a report containing details of its proposal, called Project Guardian. The publication states that the MAS is already collaborating with 11 organizations working to develop and test tokenization...

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Crypto.com Secures License from Monetary Authority of Singapore as Payment Institution

Securing this recent license will allow Crypto.com to offer DPT services to a wide range of customers in Singapore. In a major development, Crypto.com announced that it has secured the license of a Major Payment Institution (MPI) from the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) for offering Digital Payment Token (DPT) services in the region. Previously, Crypto.com received its in-principle approval from the MAS last year in June 2022. Having secured the license recently, the platform will be...

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Singapore-based Trading Platform iSTOX Scores Full Regulatory Approval

The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) approved ICHX Tech Pte, iSTOX’s parent company, as a market operator on February 1, granting it a capital markets services license, Bloomberg reports. The approval sets iSTOX up as one of the first securities token platforms to receive this license, ICXH Tech stated.The license removes several restrictions from the platform, allowing the startup to increase the size of its issuance as well as the number of investors it can take on.iSTOX uses...

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Singapore New Payment Law Allows Crypto Companies to Lead Their Activities in the Country

The crypto landscape is drastically changing around the world – especially in Singapore where global cryptocurrency firms have been given the opportunity, through new payment legislation to expand the horizons of their operations to the country by obtaining operational licenses to function therein.This legislation, The Payment Service Act which becomes effective by Tuesday, is the first of its kind in the list of comprehensive regulations, regarding the activities of companies involved in the...

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Morgan Stanley Developers Launch Crypto Derivatives Exchange Phemex

As the crypto markets continue to move on a roller coaster, it seems like adoption is growing steadily. A group of eight former Morgan Stanley core developers announced the launch of Phemex. Phemex is a ‘high-speed’ cryptocurrency derivatives platform that is well-designed for the retail and institutional investors. The new firm is based in Singapore.In a December 4 press release, the former Morgan Stanley developers came with big claims that the platform is ten times faster than the...

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