The Monetary Authority of Singapore is reviewing Binance's application for a license to operate in the city-state.
The Monetary Authority of Singapore’s “Global CBDC Challenge” will be supported by Amazon Web Services, Mastercard, Hyperledger and others.
Companies apply under the Payment Services Act, a comprehensive regulatory framework for companies handling activities relating to digital assets, including payments and trading.
Singapore authorities charged a 23-year-old woman with breaking the city-state’s months-old ban on unlicensed bitcoin sales.
Singapore’s newly enacted Payment Services Act brings so-called Digital Payment Token (DPT) services under current anti-money laundering (AML) and counterterrorist-financing (CTF) rules.
A new security token platform has launched with backing from Singapore stock exchange SGX and technical help from ConsenSys.
The central banks of Canada and Singapore have for the first time settled cross-border payments using blockchain and central bank digital currencies.
The Monetary Authority of Singapore and the national exchange are looking to blockchain for selling tokenized digital assets.
Singapore's central bank has warned eight digital token exchanges and an ICO issuer to stop trading tokens deemed unauthorized securities.
Singapore's central bank is proposing a change to existing exchange market rules aimed to ease blockchain adoption and decentralization.
The chief of the Monetary Authority of Singapore has spoken of how blockchain's "strongest" use case is in cross-border settlement.
Singapore's de facto central bank, the Monetary Authority of Singapore, is looking at whether new regulations are needed to protect crypto investors.
Responding to lawmakers' questions, Singapore's deputy prime minister has said there's "no strong case" to ban cryptocurrency trading in the country.
The fintech chief at the Monetary Authority of Singapore believes bitcoin won't cause a financial meltdown like the 2008 Lehman Brothers bankruptcy.
The Monetary Authority of Singapore has become the latest financial watchdog to issue a warning on the risks of investing in cryptocurrencies.