Economies worldwide are increasingly considering the viability of a digitised national currency, most commonly referred to now as a…
Digital Assets
Institutional decentralized finance (DeFi), a trend that refers to the combination of DeFi software protocols with appropriate safeguards…
In a dramatic turn of events, FTX filed for bankruptcy protection in the United States, with CEO and…
HashKey Capital announced at the Singapore Fintech Festival that it has received in-principle approval for the Capital Markets…
Fazz financial group’s StraitsX and Grab are testing the issuance of Purpose Bound Money (PBM) with 5,000 trial…
DBS announced that it is testing the trading of foreign exchange and government securities using permissioned DeFi liquidity…
BIS Innovation Hub is launching a project around central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) and Decentralised Finance (DeFi) protocols…
The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) announced that Project Guardian, its project exploring decentralised finance (DeFi) applications in…
Blockchain infrastructure platform Paxos has received a license from the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) to offer digital…
The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) published two consultation papers proposing regulatory measures for cryptocurrency trading and stablecoins…
By 2030, blockchain-enabled asset tokenization is expected to grow fiftyfold into a US$16.1 trillion business opportunity, a rise…
The cryptocurrency market is down significantly since the end of 2021, with the overall market losing nearly 70%…
Singaporean crypto fund manager Fintonia Group announced that it has secured a provisional virtual asset license granted by…
The past year has seen cryptocurrency adoption and trading surge. Total transaction reached US$15.8 trillion in 2021, up…
In Asia, adoption of digital assets as an investment is growing at a staggering pace, emerging this year…
Global cryptocurrency company Luno has been granted in-principle approval from the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) under the…
Challenger bank Revolut has received in-principle approval from the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) to operate a fully…
The financial measures that were imposed by the Singapore Government in relation to Russia applies to all financial…
Singapore-based major payment institution FOMO Pay has entered into a strategic agreement to collaborate with Circle Internet Financial,…
The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) has granted in-principle approval to Digital Treasures Center (DTC), a payment company…